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David Foster Wallace
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 68 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1989–2027, suosituimpiin kuuluu Girl with Curious Hair. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
68 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1989–2027.
Everything and More
David Foster Wallace; Neal (INT) Stephenson
WW Norton Co
2010
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Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one kind of infinity. Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics.
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 attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
Ein Giftanschlag mit Schokoriegeln, ein verbrühtes Kind oder ein durchgedrehter Lehrer ? auch in seinen neuen Erzählungen nimmt David Foster Wallace die zeitgenössische Wirklichkeit ins Visier. Unbarmherzig schlachtet er gesellschaftliche Schwachstellen aus und beschreibt, wie Heuchelei, Hass und das Böse in die Welt kommen: ganz langsam, ganz harmlos, im Kopf jedes Einzelnen.
The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy; the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but remarkable eighteenth-century woman artist; the novelist Marilynne Robinson explores what has happened to holiness in contemporary Christianity; the essayist Richard Rodriguez wonders if California has anything left to say to America; and the Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson attempts to find common ground with the evangelical community. In his introduction, David Foster Wallace makes the spirited case that "many of these essays are valuable simply as exhibits of what a first-rate artistic mind can make of particular fact-sets -- whether these involve the 17-kHz ring tones of some kids' cell phones, the language of movement as parsed by dogs, the near-infinity of ways to experience and describe an earthquake, the existential synecdoche of stagefright, or the revelation that most of what you've believed and revered turns out to be self-indulgent crap."
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
Back Bay Books
2007
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This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is "brilliantly entertaining... Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). 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 enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters. "Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Consider The Lobster
David Foster Wallace
Little, Brown Book Group
2007
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A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JEST
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 questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human -- and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. With a foreword by Tom Bisell. "The next step in fiction... Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty... Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." --Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic
Rick und Lenore - Lenore und ihre Familie: Das Verhältnis Lenores zu ihrer Familie ist getrübt, lediglich ihrer Großmutter und Namensgeberin Lenore sen. fühlt sie sich verbunden. Lenore sen. ist jedoch aus dem Altersheim zusammen mit 25 Mitbewohnern und einem Teil der Angestellten verschwunden - und mit ihr ein wertvolles Notizbuch, das die Aufzeichnungen einer Wittgenstein-Vorlesung enthält, dessen Schülerin Lenore sen. war. Ein temporeicher Roman, der mit den Genres spielt und sich wie ein Krimi liest.
Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace
Little Brown and Company
2005
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A collection of essays shares whimsical observations about such topics as the Bush-Kerry presidential race, the pain experienced by lobsters while they are being prepared for the feast, and Franz Kafka's questionable sense of humor.
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. "Stunning... Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place." --San Francisco Chronicle
Oblivion: Stories
David Foster Wallace
Little, Brown Book Group
2005
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A recognised master of form and a brilliant recorder of human behaviour, David Foster Wallace has been hailed as ‘the most significant writer of his generation’ (TLS). Each new book confirms and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is no exception. In the stories that make up Oblivion, Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.
David Foster Wallace beschreibt in seinen Stories Figuren am Abgrund, allen voran die "fiesen" Männer. Sie dürfen in fiktiven Interviews ihre - vor allem sexuellen - Beziehungen zu Frauen ungeschminkt beschreiben. So entsteht ein Beziehungskosmos, in dem die Protagonisten ihre Ängste zu verbergen suchen oder ihre Höhenflüge selbstbewusst zur Schau stellen.
The award-winning author of Infinite Jest considers the paradoxical nature of infinity, considering whether or not it is mathematically plausible or just an abstract concept, and examining the work of Georg Cantor as it contributed to the development of set theory, analytic philosophy, and computer technology. 50,000 first printing.
David F. Wallace ist die auffälligste Stimme der jungen amerikanischen Literatur. Seine risikofreudigen Storys um Talkshows, komische Haare und alternde Kinderstars sind aufregend genug und drehen sich mit dem Karussel des Medienzirkus. Gepaart mit seinem kreativen Sprachgebrauch, seinem Hang zum Grotesken und einer scharfen Beobachtungsgabe sind sie Garanten für eine einzigartige Lektüre.
