Understanding David Foster WallaceUniv of South Carolina Press, 2003 - 232 páginas Marshall Boswell examines the four major works of fiction David Foster Wallace has produced thus far: the novels The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest and the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. |
Índice
Cynicism and Naïveté Modernisms Third Wave | |
The Broom of the System Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game | 17 |
Girl with Curious Hair Inside and Outside the Set | 61 |
Infinite Jest Too Much Fun for Anyone Mortal to Hope to Endure | 112 |
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Interrogations and Consolidations | 176 |
Notes | 207 |
Bibliography | 217 |
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