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Dette er vand har haft en mærkværdig skæbne som tekst. Den startede som en tale og er endt som David Foster Wallaces mest læste og berømte tekst - måske fordi han heri kredser om livets mening og meningsløshed og også om selvmord - som han selv endte med
In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real , almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meet
A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ... He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space cont
Dette er vand har haft en mærkværdig skæbne som tekst. Den startede som en tale og er endt som David Foster Wallaces mest læste og berømte tekst - måske fordi han heri kredser om livets mening og meningsløshed og også om selvmord - som han selv endte med
Both Flesh and Not combines David Foster Wallace's best-loved essays with work never before published in the UK. Beloved for his brilliantly discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely generous imagination, David Foster Wallace was heralded
The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and acco
A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as &q
A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of to
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers t
Efter succesen med essaysamlingen Dette er vand fra 2014 har Claus Bech nu oversat et i størrelse tilsvarende udvalg af David Foster Wallaces noveller. Novellerne har den samme sælsomme svæven mellem det tragiske og det komiske som forfatterens essays. Og
Med "Dette er vand" får du en underholdende indføring i David Foster Wallaces syn på sine amerikanske medborgere. Gennem sit forfatterskab blev David Foster Wallace særligt kendt for sine mange litterære eksperimenter, som både bestod af skarpe
Den amerikanske fremtidsdystopi "Infinite Jest" følger blandt andet de tidligere misbrugere fra udslusningshjemmet Ennet House og de studerende fra det nærvedliggende elitære tennisakademi. Begge grupper er dybt optaget af at opspore den origina
Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton,
David Foster Wallace's last, unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force "using the IRS the way Borges used the lipary and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world." --John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ When David Fos
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers com
In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of s
An instant classic of American sportswriting-the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best mind of his generation" (A. O. Scott) and "the best tennis-writer of all time" (New York Times) Gathered for the first time in a deluxe c
'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen 
How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in
Som opvarmning til udgivelsen af David Foster Wallaces litterære hovedværk Infinite Jest udgives forfatterens fem mest kendte tennisessays. Foster Wallace var selv elitetennisspiller som ung, og han skriver således både indefra og udefra, med både konkurr
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential
The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest ( New York Times ) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination
The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart . "To my mind, there h
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential
In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralli
The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest ( New York Times ) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination
One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math'
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show ho