Description

In the stories that constitute Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self consciousness--a mixture that's dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by every other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by means of his son's daydreaming via a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Isn't a Smithy"). Or might discover the deepest and most hilarious facets of creativity by delineating work politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures within an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel").