![]() Oblivion is an arresting and hilarious creation from a writer "whose best work challenges and reinvents the art of fiction" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. ![]() The Suffering Channel is the most incredible story.image an 'artist' whose art just happens to be perfectly formed repliques of famous paintings and sculptures that he craps out combined with a television station that shows people suffering 24 hours a day. 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"). These stories are funny and brilliantly written. 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"). More self-aware than might be healthy, the tangled souls situated in eight new stories by David Foster Wallace. ![]() 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"). Few of the characters in Oblivion have an easy time getting through the day. ![]() ![]() These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. 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. ![]()
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