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David Foster Wallace - Presences of the Other (Hardcover)
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David Foster Wallace - Presences of the Other (Hardcover)
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Why is David Foster Wallace so widely read? Why does his fiction
and non-fiction continue to raise enthusiasm among an ever-growing
variety of readers of all ages and backgrounds not only in the
English-speaking countries but all over the world, while describing
all the malcontents, dead ends and solipsistic tendencies of
contemporary civilisation? Presences of the Other counteracts the
vision of Wallaces postmodern oeuvre as selfishly self-absorbed,
narcissistic or confining and attempts to answer the question of
its appeal by addressing it as an open work, following Umberto Ecos
definition of great texts. Epitomised in the missing questions of
Brief Interviews; in the endnotes of Infinite Jest that entice
readers into fertile wanderings; or in The Pale King demands for
active editing and creative involvement, DFWs paradoxically
difficult and impenetrable work opens up and allows for limitless
interventions and participations. By becoming a playground for
interpretation, his work reveals itself as an exercise in care.
Indeterminate and inconclusive, constructed on Derridean
difference, DFWs output testifies to the presence of a liberating
symbolic Other; by resisting closure, it promotes both a
fundamental reworking of the literary tradition and a compassionate
vision of the human condition. Prominent scholars explore varieties
of otherness in Wallaces open work by engaging with the dialogue
his writing establishes with non-literary discourses such as cinema
(French Nouvelle Vague), music (rap, in Signifying Rappers),
religion (Buddhism) and philosophy (Wittgenstein and Ranciere).
Critical approaches to the authors protean identity, taste for
masquerade and performance, and capacity for metamorphosis and
transformation, foreground traces of an otherness that sets out a
salutary spiritual potential for the 21st century.
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