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Oblivion: Stories (Edição em áudio): Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Hachette Audio: Amazon.com.br: Livros
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness — a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's ...
Much of the stories in Oblivion touch on this (see: The Soul is Not a Smithy and Good Ole Neon) and the word Oblivion itself, I believe, could be considered a synonym to solipsism. Also, in This is Water, DFW says that the central human paradox is that everyone can only live with themselves as the center of the universe.
Oblivion Quotes Showing 1-30 of 49. “What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.”. ― David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories. tags: beautiful-sadness , et-cetera-et-cetera , good-old-neon.
I’d recommend saving Good Old Neon as a “treat”, as some of the stories are a bit dense (e.g. Another Pioneer), and you’ll have something to look forward to. Personally, I would just read the book in order, but I’m just kind of neurotic that way, and indeed it is a collection of short stories so linearity isn’t really necessary.
Each new book confirms and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is no exception. In the stories that make up OBLIVION, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. eBook com Kobo by Fnac.
It is very dark. One of the stories, “Good Old Neon” is devoted to suicide and a meditation on self-loathing, and a minor character named “David Wallace” is mentioned towards the end of the story. The title story (“Oblivion”) completely turned on its head in the last page. With the help of Wikipedia and other on-line sites that ...
