Libros de David Foster Wallace

Fate, Time, And Language

• 252 páginas
• In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that

Unendlicher Spaß

• 1547 páginas

Am Beispiel Des Hummers

• 63 páginas

Die Entdeckung Des Unendlichen

• 407 páginas
• David Foster Wallace, Legende der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur, erzählt die Geschichte des Unendlichen. Dieses Buch ist eine philosophische Einführung in ein großes Thema der Mathematik und zugleich eine Verneigung vor der Totalit&au...

Unendlicher Spaß

• 1545 páginas

Everything And More: A Compact History Of Infinity

• 344 páginas
• Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton,...

Kurze Interviews Mit Fiesen Männern

• 384 páginas
• 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 Beziehungskosmo...

Oblivion

• 330 páginas
• 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.

Infinite Jest

• 1079 páginas
• Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so...

Consider The Lobster And Other Essays

• 342 páginas
• 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...

Broom Of The System

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

• 353 páginas
• A collection of essays on a variety of subjects, from tennis players to cruises, from the author of the fictional title "Infinite Jest". "Animated by wonderfully exuberant prose" "New York Times".

Oblivion

• 329 páginas
• 'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ..He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space...

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

• 273 páginas
• In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal...

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

• 336 páginas
• David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations...

The Broom Of The System

• 467 páginas
• A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts'..

Girl With Curious Hair

• 373 páginas
• 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 meet...

Girl With Curious Hair

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