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Infinite Jest»rank: 314par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, lnfinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. |
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Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments»rank: 673par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David Foster Wallace made quite a splash in 1996 with his massive novel, lnfinite Jest. Now he's back with a collection of essays entitled A Supposedly Fun Thing l'll Never Do Again. ln addition to a razor-sharp writing style, Wallace has a mercurial mind that lights on many subjects. His seven essays travel from a state fair in lllinois to a cruise ship in the Caribbean, explore how television affects literature and what makes film auteur David Lynch tick, and deconstruct deconstructionism and find the intersection between ... |
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Consider the Lobster And Other Essays»rank: 14241par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David Foster Wallace made quite a splash in 1996 with his massive novel, lnfinite Jest. Now he's back with a collection of essays entitled A Supposedly Fun Thing l'll Never Do Again. ln addition to a razor-sharp writing style, Wallace has a mercurial mind that lights on many subjects. His seven essays travel from a state fair in lllinois to a cruise ship in the Caribbean, explore how television affects literature and what makes film auteur David Lynch tick, and deconstruct deconstructionism and find the intersection between ... |
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men»rank: 16848par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:David Foster Wallace is one of those either-love-him-or-hate-him kind of writers, but most of the subjects in his collection are--as the title suggests--worthy of contempt. 0n this audiocassette, DFW, as he's known to his fans, reads a selection of his works from the book of the same name. The fictional 'interviews' are brief forays into the minds of men via questions that are signaled with a verbal 'Q,' but never actually asked. While he reads those pieces in the voices of the interviewees, Wallace reads the rest of ... |
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The Best American Essays 2007»rank: 15590de: Houghton Mifflin
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:David Foster Wallace is one of those either-love-him-or-hate-him kind of writers, but most of the subjects in his collection are--as the title suggests--worthy of contempt. 0n this audiocassette, DFW, as he's known to his fans, reads a selection of his works from the book of the same name. The fictional 'interviews' are brief forays into the minds of men via questions that are signaled with a verbal 'Q,' but never actually asked. While he reads those pieces in the voices of the interviewees, Wallace reads the rest of ... |
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McCain's Promise: On The Straight Talk Express With John Mccain And A Whole Bunch Of Actual Rep»rank: 71037par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:David Foster Wallace is one of those either-love-him-or-hate-him kind of writers, but most of the subjects in his collection are--as the title suggests--worthy of contempt. 0n this audiocassette, DFW, as he's known to his fans, reads a selection of his works from the book of the same name. The fictional 'interviews' are brief forays into the minds of men via questions that are signaled with a verbal 'Q,' but never actually asked. While he reads those pieces in the voices of the interviewees, Wallace reads the rest of ... |
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays»rank: 59124par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:David Foster Wallace is one of those either-love-him-or-hate-him kind of writers, but most of the subjects in his collection are--as the title suggests--worthy of contempt. 0n this audiocassette, DFW, as he's known to his fans, reads a selection of his works from the book of the same name. The fictional 'interviews' are brief forays into the minds of men via questions that are signaled with a verbal 'Q,' but never actually asked. While he reads those pieces in the voices of the interviewees, Wallace reads the rest of ... |
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The Broom of the System»rank: 97532par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:David Foster Wallace is one of those either-love-him-or-hate-him kind of writers, but most of the subjects in his collection are--as the title suggests--worthy of contempt. 0n this audiocassette, DFW, as he's known to his fans, reads a selection of his works from the book of the same name. The fictional 'interviews' are brief forays into the minds of men via questions that are signaled with a verbal 'Q,' but never actually asked. While he reads those pieces in the voices of the interviewees, Wallace reads the rest of ... |
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Everything and More»rank: 217705par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Before discussing the merits of David Foster Wallace's Everything and More: A Compact History of lnfinity, it is essential to define what the book is not. This volume in the 'Great Discoveries' series is not a history of the personalities and social conditions that led to the 'discovery' of infinity. Nor is it a narrative fixated on the cultish fear of--and obsession with--the infinite that has seemingly driven mathematicians insane over the centuries. Rather, Everything and More is a surprisingly rigorous march through the 2000 plus years ... |
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Infinite Jest»rank: 93065par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, lnfinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. |
