David Foster Wallace interview and reading from "Oblivion" on WPR (2004)
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Oblivion: Stories (2004) is a collection of short fiction by American author David Foster Wallace. Oblivion is Wallace's third and last short story collection and was listed as a 2004 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Throughout the stories, Wallace explores the nature of reality, dreams, trauma, and the "dynamics of consciousness." The story "Good Old Neon" was included in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002.
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. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. 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"). 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"). 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"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.
In his best work, Infinite Jest, Wallace leavened his smartest-boy-in-class style, perfected in his essays and short stories, with a stereoscopic reproduction of other voices. Wallace's trademark, however, is an officious specificity, typical of the Grade A student overreaching: shifting levels of microscopic detail and self-reflection. This collection of eight stories highlights both the power and the weakness of these idiosyncrasies. The best story in the book, "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature," assembles a typical Wallaceian absurdity: a paroled, autodidactic arachnophile accompanies his mother, the victim of plastic surgery malpractice ("the cosmetic surgeon botched it and did something to the musculature of her face which caused her to look insanely frightened at all times"), on a bus ride to a lawyer's office. "The Suffering Channel" moves from the grotesque to the gross-out, as a journalist for Style (a celebrity magazine) pursues a story about a man whose excrement comes out as sculpture. The title story, about a man and wife driven to visit a sleep clinic, is narrated by the husband, who soon reveals himself to be the tedious idiot his father-in-law takes him for.
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I love listening to David speak. So fluid and beautiful.
Is it strange I only listen to DFW speak in interviews or narrate his novels and essays? I love the man he brings me hours and hours of contemplation and peace.
The genuine genius ⭐ He was only an exceptional language artist & philosopher, who has conceived a certain contemporary perception sharply deconstructed. We ALL miss you, DFW...
This is so amazing. Thank you!!!!!
thanks for posting this!
DFW is like Funes el Memorioso. Its like he remembers everything. DFW also has the ability to write it down perfectly.
Мне нравится его взгляд на неоднозначность понятия «реализм». В конце концов и приём «потока сознания» был придуман не для того, чтобы отойти от реализма, а для того чтобы наоборот как можно ближе подойти к описанию того, как сознание действует на самом деле. Как нечто синкретичное, обрывочное и далеко не всегда линейное. Это был шаг навстречу гиперреализму.
The guy was a genius
No he wasn’t.
Just really smart
@@uscbro69 yeah perhaps if he were just a writer but he did a lot more, that's what makes him a genius
@@Mutantcy1992 what else did he do? I’ve covered most of his stuff and never encountered genius-though I wish I had.
@@Mutantcy1992 read or listen to DFW, and then check out Nietzsche or Durkheim. If DFW is genius, then we need another word for those others
I think there needs to be a national holiday to honor this great man. One of the gretest minds of a man in human history. A gentle soul of a saint reincarnated
The Year of David Foster Wallace haha
23:41 Language is the wildcard
23:28 is great. He gets into something that haunted him throughout most of his literature: Linguistic idealism.
@@bobby7844 right. Nabokov would concur, and Orwell to some extent would, too.
И вообще я рада, что наконец-то прокачала свой английский достаточно хорошо, чтобы хотя бы временами чётко понимать, о чем он говорит. И когда я понимаю, я абсолютно с ним согласна.
Lovely I’m happy for you I love DFW on so many levels he is brilliant have you listened to this is water speech ?
Ему очень идёт эта стрижка)
Lack of haircut
Я бы сказала, что реализм - это просто отсутствие фантастических элементов. Когда автор не описывает что-то, что противоречит законам физики. Но слабость этой версии в том, что с течением времени наши представления о законах физики тоже порой кардинально меняются. 😅
Its like he wrote the playbook for how to exploit peoples psyche via social media, gosh so prescient
What book is that