The Broom of the System | Social Concerns
Although David Foster Wallace is a staggeringly imaginative and erudite novelist, essayist, and cultural critic with wideranging interests and often profound, sober convictions, his fiction has converged on a very few, specific, though important, concerns. Typical, perhaps, of both an English and philosophy major (Amherst College during the mid-eighties), Wallace has infused these two disciplines into his fiction in unique ways. What is particularly invigorating and forms the foundation between the marriage of these disciplines in Wallace's work is his unflagging belief that literature...
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