«Un arriesgado triunfo del maestro de la narrativa inteligente. Filósofo inquisitivo y habilidoso narrador, el autor de La broma infinita crea complejas historias repletas de cuestiones metafísicas y crítica social devastadora,...
¿Tienen miedo las langostas antes de ser devoradas? ¿Tenía Frank Kafka un sentido del humor enfermizo? Por cierto, ¿quién ganó el Adult Video New's Female Performer of the Year Award cuando Gwyneth Paltrow...
Hay relatos de tamaño convencional y otros que ocupan un solo párrafo; uno está escrito como un esquema y otro como una entrada de diccionarios; hay transcripciones de entrevistas cuyas preguntas jamás leemos, pero imaginamos;...
David Foster Wallace es uno de los escritores con mayor talento y más audaces de la actual narrativa norteamericana. En La niña del pelo raro , la presente recopilación de diez relatos, recrea -de manera exquisita y perturbadora a...
David Foster Wallaceâs last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force âusing the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.â...
David Foster Wallace wrote the novels The Pale King , Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and three story collections. His non-fiction includes Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
An instant classic of American sportswritingâthe tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, âthe best mind of his generationâ (A. O. Scott) and âthe best tennis-writer of all timeâ&...
Eine frühe Erzählung von David Foster Wallace, erstmals 1984 in The Amherst Review, einer literarischen Studentenzeitschrift, erschienen. Mit erschreckender Offenheit und Formulierungen, die später in seinen Romanen und Erzählungen...
David Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 minutes...
David Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 minutes...
The 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....
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their...