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Book description. Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological accounts of its causes and ...
27 de abr. de 2011 · Foster Wallace: An Ordinary Guy Who Couldn't Be. Late author David Foster Wallace's unfinished book The Pale King is the sequel to his 1996 novel, Infinite Jest . Writers love to grumble about the ...
7 de jan. de 2020 · Suicide Is Not an Act of Cowardice. A radio host’s tweets have resurrected a dangerous myth to disparage a celebrated novelist. David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, was a ...
15 de abr. de 2011 · David Foster Wallace novel 'not a suicide note'. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace is being published posthumously today, following the 46-year-old American author's long battle with depression and eventual suicide in 2008. Arts editor Will Gompertz reports on what made Wallace's writing so special, and why many credit him with reinventing ...
23 de mai. de 2013 · 3 Marshall Boswell, rather brilliantly, argues that Wallace's fundamental innovation in literature is his attempt to prove that cynicism and naïveté are mutually compatible: “[Wallace] does not merely join cynicism and naïveté: rather, he employs cynicism—figured as sophisticated self-reflexive irony—to recover a learned form of heartfelt naïveté, his work's ultimate mode and what ...
14 de set. de 2008 · Sept. 14, 2008. David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was ...
David Foster Wallace (* 21. Februar 1962 in Ithaca, New York; † 12. September 2008 in Claremont, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Hochschullehrer. Bekannt wurde er durch seinen 1996 veröffentlichten Roman Infinite Jest ( Unendlicher Spaß). [1] [2] Das Magazin Time zählt das Werk zu den wichtigsten ...
