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Plot Summary. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace is an unusual novel, which was written before Wallace’s suicide in 2008, and published in 2011. The novel is considered to be unfinished, and critics have speculated over its meaning. It also does not follow a chronological sequence.
Like much of Wallace's work, the novel defies straightforward summary. Each chapter stands almost alone, with text ranging from straight dialogues between coworkers about civics or cartography to snippets of the 1985 Illinois tax code to poignant sensory or character sketches.
- David Foster Wallace
- 2011
Complete summary of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Pale King.
Der bleiche König (englischer Originaltitel: The Pale King) ist ein Roman von David Foster Wallace, der im April 2011 postum aus seinem Nachlass veröffentlicht wurde.
Brief Synopsis. Plot Overview. "The Pale King" is set in the 1980s at an IRS examination center in Peoria, Illinois. The novel delves into the lives of IRS agents who are tasked with the monotonous job of processing tax returns.
31. März 2011 · His posthumous unfinished novel, “The Pale King” — which is set largely in an I.R.S. office in the Midwest — depicts an America so plagued by tedium, monotony and meaningless bureaucratic rules...
30. Juni 2011 · This is a fairly precise summary of The Pale King—if you take “nothing actually happens” to mean an absence of recognizable character arcs defined through readily identifiable conflicts progressing along a linear narrative.
