David Foster Wallace: 46 books
Consider the Lobster
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?
David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.
Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Remarkable, hilarious, and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent" (New York Times Book Review).
David Foster Wallace was one of America's most prodigiously talented and original young writers, and Girl with Curious Hair displays the full...
McCain's Promise
Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Is John McCain "For Real?"
That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when Mccain was increasingly perceived as a harbinger of change, the anticandidate whose goal was...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Un arriesgado triunfo del maestro de la narrativa inteligente
David Foster Wallace reinventa una vez más el arte de la ficción
Los ocho relatos que componen Extinción forman un universo surrealista en el que conviven la realidad más prosaica con delirantes espirales de la conciencia...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2018
La brillante originalità dello stile, e soprattutto la capacità di raccontare in maniera commovente e acuta le contraddizioni del nostro tempo - sia in forma narrativa che saggistica - hanno fatto di David Foster Wallace uno scrittore ammirato dai critici e amatissimo dai lettori. Benché la sua...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings...
Esto es agua (Flash Ensayo)
Algunas ideas, expuestas en una ocasión especial, sobre cómo vivir con compasión
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Escrito en 2005 y debatido ampliamente tras la muerte del autor, este discurso es un legado conciso de uno de los grandes pensadores de nuestro tiempo. Transido con su humor único, su intelecto preciso y su filosofía práctica, Esto es agua muestra los retos de la vida diaria y ofrece consejos que...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Questa è la storia di sei personaggi in viaggio verso un luogo dove forse non arriveranno mai; è la storia di una poetessa ambiziosa che compone versi fatti tutti di consonanti, di un Ronald McDonald che si fa le canne, di un grande pubblicitario che spaccia rose fritte, di un gigantesco contadino...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000
In February 2000, "Rolling Stone" magazine sent David Foster Wallace, "NOT A POLITICAL JOURNALIST, " on the road for a week with Senator John McCain's campaign to win the Republican nomination for the Presidency. They wanted to know why McCain appealed so much to so many Americans,...
Ilustres raperos
El rap explicado a los blancos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2017
"¿Qué derecho tienen dos yuppies blancos a intentar hacer un muestrario de lo que es el rap?", se preguntaban David Foster Wallace y Mark Costello en 1989. El escritor (que se acababa de trasladar a Boston para estudiar en Harvard) y su compañero de piso descubrieron su pasión común por el entonces...
by Mark Costello, David Foster Wallace
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 30, 2019
David Foster Wallace è ritenuto la voce più originale e rilevante della letteratura americana degli ultimi vent’anni; è celebre per il suo romanzo-fiume Infinite Jest, i racconti e i reportage narrativi, ma è tutta da riscoprire questa sua opera giovanile, scritta a quattro mani con l’amico...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Un capolavoro di comicità e virtuosismo stilistico con cui i lettori italiani hanno conosciuto il genio letterario di David Foster Wallace. Commissionatogli inizialmente come articolo per la prestigiosa rivista Harper's, questo reportage narrativo da una crociera extralusso ai Caraibi - iniziato...
Unendlicher Spaß
Infinite Jest. Roman
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Der Kultroman als eBook! "Unendlicher Spaß vereint literarische Innovation und Lesbarkeit auf eigene, unerhörte, markerschütternde Weise." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Unendlicher Spaß" – so nannte James Incandenza seinen Film, der Menschen, die ihn anschauen, so verhext,...