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Oblivion
- Title
- Oblivion / David Foster Wallace.
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster.
- Publication
- New York : Little, Brown, ©2004.
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Details
- Description
- 329 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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 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 disconcertingly immediate. Oblivion is an arresting and hilarious new creation from a writer "whose best work challenges and reinvents the art of fiction" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
- Genre/Form
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Contents
- Mister squishy -- The soul is not a smithy -- Incarnations of burned children -- Another pioneer -- Good old neon -- Philosophy and the mirror of nature -- Oblivion -- The suffering channel.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-12943
- ISBN
- 0316919810
- 9780316919814
- LCCN
- 2003027135
- 9780316919814
- OCLC
- 55746844
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster.
- Title
- Oblivion / David Foster Wallace.
- Imprint
- New York : Little, Brown, ©2004.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780316919814
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-12943