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Conversaciones Con David Foster Wallace (2012)

by Stephen J. Burn(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

849405290X (ISBN13: 9788494052903)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Pálido Fuego

review 1: in una delle interviste DFW aveva detto che la scrittura dovrebbe essere un antidoto contro la solitudine, in effetti è quello che ho sperimentato quando ho letto Una Cosa divertente che non farò mai più: finalmente ho trovato una persona che pensa apertamente le stesse cose che penso io, non mi sono sentita più tanto strana per il semplice fatto di non condividere con nessuno dei miei amici l'avversione per le crociere e per gli spazi intasati di gente che si DEVE divertire a tutti i costi...
review 2: I don't get the point of this book.The introduction is sludgy academic-ese that adds very little to what one can discern from DFW's writings.A lot of the Q&As included are incredibly lightweight--some hardly interviews at all. These are not only repetitive, ... morethe same anecdotes recurring again and again and again, but misleading. DFW was very self-conscious, but it's wrong to call him shy, as these interviews say ad nauseum.Only three interviews stand out, 'Looking for a Garde of Which to be Avant'; 'The Connection'; and 'An Expanded Interview with David Foster Wallace'--which is head and shoulders the best in the book, and maybe the whole reason to buy the book.DFW talks on a lot of familiar subjects, his constant battle between the nihilistic irony of (some) postmodernism and his urge for earnestness that is real and not maudlin; his urge to in some sense bridge experimental fiction with more popular entertainments; the need to look at things that are around us but ignored (TV, boredom).The finalessay by Mark Lipsky is excellent, and also an advertisement* for his much superior study of DFW--based on interviews--"Of Course, You End Up Becoming Yourself."Two stars only because in many places DFW's voice does come through well--otherwise it would be one.* I also cannot figure why the book insists on spelling advertisement as advertizement. less

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