Month: November 2013
“The point here is that the idea of a Private Language, like Private Colors and most of the other solipsistic conceits with which this particular […]
“Perhaps the greatest example of this movement between [narrative] registers, however, is the phrase Infinite Jest itself. Over the course of the novel it moves […]
“Wallace is deeply suspicious of novelty, even as he scrambles to position himself on the cutting edge. His earlier collection of short fiction, Girl With […]
“You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship…In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there […]
“Wallace is, clearly, bent on taking the next step in fiction. He is carrying on the Pynchonian celebration of the renegade spirit in a world […]
“Whatever the explanation for his preoccupation with solipsism in Wittgenstein, Wallace never abandoned his fixation on sealed-off people. Few readers of Infinite Jest will forget […]
“[Michael] Pietsch was also still worried about how the parts [of Infinite Jest] fit together…Wallace insisted that the answers all existed, but just past the […]
“It was above all Wittgenstein’s technique that was of interest [to Wallace] — particularly his style in the Philosophical Investigations, in which he revived, through […]