David Foster Wallace (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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David Foster Wallace’s writing showcases a remarkable talent, as adept at the novel as at the short story and as skillful in fiction as nonfiction. In Girl with Curious Hair (1989), his first collection of short stories, Wallace demonstrates his keen eye for representing the complexities of life in the late twentieth century. As an essayist, he published detailed philosophical explorations of the death of the author and on the love-hate relationship between fiction and television in America, as well as humorous travel reports, such as “In Quest...
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