„I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.“
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
Birthdate: 21. February 1962
Date of death: 12. September 2008
Other names: دايفيد والاس
David Foster Wallace was an American writer and university instructor of English and creative writing. His novel Infinite Jest was listed by Time magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His last novel, The Pale King , was a final selection for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.
The Los Angeles Times book reviewer David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years". Wallace's works have influenced writers such as Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Wurtzel, George Saunders, Rivka Galchen, Matthew Gallaway, David Gordon, Darin Strauss, Charles Yu, and Deb Olin Unferth.
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
An Interview by Larry McCaffery
Essays
Variant: I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Variant: That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Essays
Source: Kenyon College Commencement Speech, April 21, 2005, published as This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life.
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
— David Foster Wallace, book The Pale King
Source: The Pale King (2011)
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest