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David Foster Wallace - A more critical eye focused on Roberto Mangabeira Unger

I read, one after another, the books of American writer David Foster Wallace, former nerd with a brilliant academic career behind him became, within a few years, a cult author, and I can not do without, in regret, to move me. Author absolutely brilliant perhaps, as repeatedly argued, really the best of his generation, Wallace was the most acute observer of the American way of life in recent years (and reflecting the lifestyle incancrenitosi long established and in all countries of the Western world) up ambitious and meticulous beyond belief (his work, essays or prose there is no difference, are full of descriptive and explanatory notes to the text to the last detail), Wallace shows in his work sarcastic, bitterly disillusioned, deep knowledge of human psychology and social. Author of books which brings out the multiplicity of his interests ranging from mathematical logic, medicine, biology and political economy, so amazing uses the language specific to these fields of human knowledge, but I think what matters most is that Wallace is the author of a literature through which allows us to share your horror at a lot of what we often have these dark times , an infinite number of situations typically exposed human detail, often paradoxical situations but never or hardly far-fetched, anguish of contemporary life, hypocrisy and transgression carried out by its characters, and increasingly common situation of extreme of depersonalization in which the relationships between individuals pay today. It is a sort of novella Comedy Humaine, the work Foster Wallace. It 'an eye constantly and critically focused on the system, its. That of David Foster Wallace is always a literature on the border with philosophical speculation, with sociology, anthropology and psychoanalysis and is populated by absurd characters and plenty of different psychological types in which he carefully manages to identify himself and is a way of writing, her, by which he shows his incredible ability to be ironic and sometimes firmly and irresistibly comic. Infinite Jest, probably the greatest masterpiece Foster Wallace, Fernanda Pivano of American literature that he meant, he said: 'This extraordinary book has changed the structure, language usage in narrative irony '(1). On what was the vision of the world of Wallace and his characters, the story reported in a recent article by Armando Massarenti:

'This is the only water is his speech with a moral-pedagogical intent. E 'was held in 2005 to the young graduates of Kenyon College (Ohio) and is a little gem of practical philosophy. It starts with the following story: . This is the worldview of the characters of Wallace. I am so damn taken with themselves that they have lost sight of the world. They are like fish swimming in quell'esasperato 'natural self-centredness' in which all are immersed without being able to see '(2).

David Foster Wallace, who was born in upstate New York in 1962, died (his body was found hanged at his home in California) in 2008.


Notes:

(1) Quote contained in the flap of the cover of the book mentioned Einaudi (Torino 2006).
(2) From 'David Foster Wallace: This is the water in which we swim', article by Armando Massarenti on http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Tempo 20libero%% 20e% 20Cultura/2009/08 /-David Foster-Wallace-water-nuotiamo.shtml? uuid = 24e6ccac-94a2-11de-b3c4-1a4970f0f178 & DocRulesView = Free , Visited by the writer on 01/09/2009. 'This is water' is the title of a small book published recently in the States. Can you give us, says Massarenti a precious help to answer the question about what the world view of Wallace and his characters.


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