Bücher von David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.

The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brillianceThe Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster Wallace's towering, brilliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel.'Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegiac' New York Times'A bravura performance worthy of Woolf or Joyce. Wallace's finest work as a novelist' Time'Light-years beyond Infinite Jest. Wallace's reputation will only grow, and like one of the broken columns beloved of Romantic painters, The Pale King will stand, complete in its incompleteness, as his most substantial fictional achievement' Hari Kunzru, Financial Times'A paradise of language and intelligence' The Times'Archly brilliant' Metro'Teems with erudition and ideas, with passages of stylistic audacity, with great cheerful thrown-out gags, goofy puns and moments of truly arresting clarity. Innovative, penetrating, forcefully intelligent fiction like Wallace's arrives once in a generation, if that' Daily Telegraph'In a different dimension to the tepid vapidities that pass as novels these days. Sentence for sentence, almost word for word, Wallace could out-write any of his peers' Scotland on SundayDavid Foster Wallace wrote the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, and the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair. His non-fiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More, This is Water and Both Flesh and Not. He died in 2008.

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talkshow featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing that only looks good on the radio. In what is sure to be a much-talked-about exploration of distinctly modern subjects, one of the sharpest minds of our time delves into some of life's most delicious topics.

David Foster Wallace's fiercely original, bracingly funny first novel, reissued to coincide with his new short story collection.

Ein früher Text von David Foster Wallace über das Wesen einer subversiven Musikrichtung ¿ des RapDavid Foster Wallaces Betrachtungen über den Rap basieren zunächst auf persönlichen Erfahrungen ¿ er kannte den Besitzer eines unabhängigen Rap-Labels und beschreibt das Umfeld, in dem dieser subversive Musikstil entstanden ist ¿ das urbane Getto, in diesem Fall in North Dorchester, Boston. Drogen, Armut und Ausgrenzung beherrschen das Lebensgefühl, das im Rap ein Ventil findet.Ein großer Teil des Buchs widmet sich der Bewertung des Rap ¿ z.B. anhand einer literarischen und historischen Analyse, die die Musik in den Kontext der mündlichen Überlieferung Afrikas stellt. David Foster Wallace und sein Co-Autor Mark Costello, der eine angehender Romanautor, der andere erfolgreicher Anwalt, zeigen sich als Kenner der politischen, musikalischen und künstlerischen Dimension einer neuen Art von Musik, die zugleich der amerikanischen Lyrik neue Impulse gab.

Ob der Vertriebsrepräsentant in der Tiefgarage Herz-Lungen-Massage anwendet, ein Paar in der Fiktionstherapie der Wahrheit näherkommen soll, Lenny in die spanische Freundin seines Bruders verliebt ist oder das Mitglied eines Creative-Writing-Seminars das Collegeleben und einen besonderen Ausflug beschreibt ¿ diese Erzählungen zeigen das thematische und sprachliche Spektrum, das die Werke David Foster Wallace¿ auszeichnet und in seinem Opus magnum «Unendlicher Spaß» seinen Höhepunkt findet.Fünf bisher nicht übersetzte Erzählungen von David Foster Wallace ¿ fünf Entdeckungen.

Ein Giftanschlag mit Schokoriegeln, ein verbrühtes Kind, ein durchgedrehter Lehrer ¿ auch in seinen neuen Erzählungen nimmt David Foster Wallace die Wirklichkeit ins Visier und erweist sich als scharfsinniger Beobachter und brillanter Erzähler. Er schlachtet unbarmherzig gesellschaftliche Schwachstellen aus und beschreibt, wie Heuchelei, Hass und das Böse in die Welt kommen: ganz langsam, ganz harmlos, im Kopf jedes Einzelnen.

The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy; the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but remarkable eighteenth-century woman artist; the novelist Marilynne Robinson explores what has happened to holiness in contemporary Christianity; the essayist Richard Rodriguez wonders if California has anything left to say to America; and the Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson attempts to find common ground with the evangelical community.In his introduction, David Foster Wallace makes the spirited case that "many of these essays are valuable simply as exhibits of what a first-rate artistic mind can make of particular fact-sets -- whether these involve the 17-kHz ring tones of some kids' cell phones, the language of movement as parsed by dogs, the near-infinity of ways to experience and describe an earthquake, the existential synecdoche of stagefright, or the revelation that most of what you've believed and revered turns out to be self-indulgent crap.”

Neue Erzählungen des gefeierten Autors von "Kleines Mädchen mit komischen Haaren"David Foster Wallace beschreibt in seinen Stories Figuren am Abgrund, allen voran die "fiesen" Männer. Sie dürfen in fiktiven Interviews ihre - vor allem sexuellen - Beziehungen zu Frauen ungeschminkt beschreiben. So entsteht ein Beziehungskosmos, in dem die Protagonisten ihre Ängste zu verbergen suchen oder ihre Höhenflüge selbstbewusst zur Schau stellen.

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).

The bestselling author of "Infinite Jest" takes on the 2,000 year-old quest to understand infinity. Wallace brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity.

In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily "real", almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism.