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Raccontare l'11 settembre, o l'ascesa della tennista Tracy Austin, analizzare l'ironia di Kafka e il suo influsso sulla mentalità degli studenti universitari, riflettere sul tragico destino delle aragoste, recarsi agli Oscar del cinema porno. Dieci anni in ascolto della voce profonda degli USA: da un talk-show reazionario condotto da un presentatore che si veste appositamente per venire bene in radio, fino alla carovana mediatica che insegue un avversario di Bush nelle primarie repubblicane.
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- Pagine: 382
- Data di uscita: 21-01-2014
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Full disclosure: I have a major intellectual crush on David Foster Wallace. Yes, yes, I know all about his weaknesses - the digressions, the rampant footnote abuse, the flaunting of his amazing erudition, the mess that is 'Infinite Jest'. I know all this, and I don't care. Because when he is in top
Have you ever experienced an intellectual fascination so intense that it compelled you to explore every author favored by the individual in question? That is what brought DFW more to my attention, a writer I had previously considered too intricate, masculinely inclined, and postmodern to align with
Consider The Essay This is a fine collection of essays. It does not seem to be put together following any particular collective logic, but all the essays seem to be good advertisements to DFW’s intuitively imaginative, explorative and curious writing method. Would need to read more of DFW’s essays to Leggi tutto
Outstanding. The closest one can get to triple penetration in essay form. Each one is a stunner, from the grotesquerie of the Adult Video Awards in ‘Big Red Son,’ the magniloquent ass-handing of John Updike, the sublime pedantry of the modern classic ‘Authority and American Usage,’ the obsessive camp Leggi tutto
This book reminds me why I love DFW. The erudition, humility, self-consciousness, and truth-seeking are all on fine display here, as is the extremely personal nature of his prose. He's constantly revealing himself while writing about others, even when such revelations are less than flattering, and i Leggi tutto
More journalistic assignments than essays. Rolling Stone sends him to the US annual porn awards. It's kind of shocking that he has nothing of interest to say about porn. There's a lot of cataloguing of surface detail, like a novelist recording research for future use. In fact, there's a sense this m Leggi tutto
This is an interesting collection of unrelated essays by the late David Foster Wallace. The funniest one for me was the title essay. No one could match him for wit and manipulation of language as this book attests. There are some essays though which are nearly unreadable like the one about a diction Leggi tutto
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