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It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.”. ― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments.
2. Feb. 1998 · Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and ...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Essays and Arguments. David Foster Wallace; Buch (Taschenbuch, Englisch) 25% sparen 11,59 € UVP 15,50 € inkl. gesetzl. MwSt. Versandkostenfrei. Taschenbuch. Taschenbuch (weitere) ab 11,59 € eBook. eBook ab ...
a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again (1995) And finally, the eponymous essay. On assignment for Harper's again, Wallace sets sail on a 7-night Caribbean cruise on the m.v. Zenith (a.k.a the Nadir). The funniest essay by far, full of his signature footnotes, Wallace explores the side-effects of total pampering, the nature of despair, and ...
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, by David Foster Wallace. Boston, Back Bay Books, 1998, 353 pp., $14.99. David Foster Wallace was a brilliant comic writer. Readers of this book will inevitably find themselves chortling. Wallace was also disturbing, with his mordant observations.
There, Franzen scattered some of Wallace's ashes and came to terms with his grief and anger over his friend's suicide. His essay on this journey , its dangers, and his deep understanding and compassion concerning his beloved friend is almost a codicil to the book (i.e., it could have also been titled “A Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”). Even ...
Summary: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again collects David Foster Wallace's writings on a range of subjects that only he could bring together. From personal narratives to tennis, film, philosophy, and postmodern literary theory, no subject is outside the play of his imagination. In "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All", a finalist for the 1995 National Magazine ...
