Oblivion Stories
Oblivion Stories by David Foster Wallace, published by Little, Brown on August 30, 2005, is a reprint edition featuring 336 pages in English. This collection presents a unique blend of raw humanity and intricate self-consciousness, showcasing Wallace’s distinctive narrative style. The stories delve into various aspects of life, exploring themes of loneliness, creativity, and the complexities of relationships through imaginative and surreal scenarios.
Readers will encounter a range of experiences, from a father’s profound isolation reflected in his son’s daydreams during a teacher’s breakdown to the humorous intricacies of office politics surrounding an artist’s unconventional work. Each story in this collection is crafted as a complete world, offering a vivid exploration of human emotions and interactions. Oblivion Stories stands out for its ability to balance the surreal with the immediate, inviting readers into a landscape that is both familiar and extraordinary.
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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.
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