![]() Oblivion is an arresting and hilarious creation from a writer "whose best work challenges and reinvents the art of fiction" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). ![]() ![]() Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Media overkill and other forms of contemporary paranoia and mendacity take their. His sentences crackle and swoon, patiently peeling back layers of artifice that cloak the Big Questions. by David Foster Wallace RELEASE DATE: June 8, 2004. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Many of Oblivion's rewards come by way of Wallace's sheer mastery of craft. ![]() These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. 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. ![]()
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