/lit/ - Literature

Authors who had oneitis

>"It’s also at just this point in the fusion-wastelessness problem where our own glorious optical Founder, Inc’s ex-Da, Mrs. Inc’s poor cuc —"
What did Pemulis mean by this?

What's /lit/'s opinion on the life and work of this man? Is he worth reading?

I think his views on 9/11 were naive and uninformed. From what little I've seen and read of him, he has an automatic tendency towards expecting others to recognize his own thoughts in themselves. He works under the assumption that all white Americans have benefited from the same privileges and culture of materialism that he has, for example.

He clearly sees himself as a teacher of some sort and that's usually not a good sign, particularly for authors of his type.

I have a predisposition towards finding people who knowingly feel they have something to say to the world a bit insufferable.

That's just my gut reaction to the guy though. I would have to read Infinite Jest to actually make a proper judgement right?

>irregardless
Nice try, bandanna man.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?_r=0
>A spokeswoman for the Claremont police said Mr. Wallace’s wife, Karen Green, returned home to find that her husband had hanged himself. Mr. Wallace’s father, James Donald Wallace, said in an interview on Sunday that his son had been severely depressed for a number of months.
RIP DFW

>>6865178
I got Josh Green too.

mfw everyone on /lit/ has really been Josh Green all along.

>She will respond with a form letter.
>We thank you for your submission but are unable to use your work at this time. Unfortunately the volume of submissions we receive makes a personal reply impossible.

dfw

>"At the end of 1989, David Foster Wallace was admitted to McLean Hospital, the psychiatric hospital associated with Harvard University, for substance addiction. He was twenty-seven years old and increasingly desperate for help. "

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/david-foster-wallace-in-recovery-an-excerpt-from-the-new-biography

>>6740767
Faulkner be corn.

>dfw not literate enough to understand infinite jest

>Man I fucking suck at being an intellectual. What am I even doing? I hate Homer! God, this is so boring! I can't read Latin but I have to constantly pretend I do. Fuck, my life is a lie.
>Ugh, what's this, another stupid intellectual book. Probably has a thousand references to dead poets I won't get. I just want to do morphine. "Kafka". What a stupid name.
DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I'M A BUG ISN'T THAT CRAZY XDDDDDDD
>I don't think this book references anything. I can't find anything. It's just weird. Why is it so weird?
>It's short too.
>Hey, maybe if I pretend it's really good, and full of hidden things that only I get, I won't have to pretend to like all those ACTUAL things in stuffy aristocratic literature.
>HEY GUYS! DID YOU KNOW THE TRIAL IS AN ALLEGORY FOR THE EXISTENTIAL ENNUI OF BUZZWORDS? I GET IT! STOP READING THAT PLUTARCH, THIS IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT, AND MUCH DEEPER! IT'S SO DEEP YOU CAN'T EVEN GET IT! BUT I GET IT.

that feel when literature is dead

>>6625946
Anon say Anon's momma ain't treat him right Anon be cry.

>>6620503
>being too reddit to understand what dfw means on /lit/

>>6619383
The idea of trying to read Infinite Kek without being well-versed in Murrican consumerism gives me the howling fantods.

>>6616321

>dfw new-sincerely get the howling fantods at the thought of being accepted

I want to read some DFW but I don't really want to tackle a 1000+ page novel as my introduction into him.

What should I read of his

>you will never date a 6/10 alt lit nu-hipster chick who only ever got noticed for her work because she's a girl and decently cute, and her noticing wasn't even that big a deal and she's way too sure of herself for someone who has been published to middling acclaim in some pissant short fiction journal that could be sokal'ed a thousand times over and would have no metric of peer review if it weren't for the reviewers' ability to gauge the hipster chic cred of the submission authors by looking them up on social media, tolerating her shallow and increasingly overbearing deadpan "aubrey plaza: grunge edition" knockoff persona while she and her equally unbearable friends think you are a subdued and stoic bukowski-lite but in reality you just want to limit your conversation with them as much as possible and you need alcohol to survive their parties, all because she does that one really weird kinky thing in sex you really like and you're unsure how to get an equally hot girl if you bail now

>>6301417
>lo tengo que leer por obligación

¿Os hacen leer a Marsé en el instituto en Cataluña? Un poco demasiado, ¿no?

i'm doing a masters in translation, and i'm looking for books (preferably short story collections) that would be cool to translate. what're your suggestions /lit/?

dfw to trick you into reading this.

what books would you recommend to a person with depression?

I am not really sure how to articulate this question, but here it goes: Is the internet an inscrutable topic for literary fiction? I've been thinking a lot about what cutting edge, contemporary fiction might look like, and I think that any such work would of course have to pay dividends to the internet in some way. However, I can't for the life of me imagine how one could one could talk about any internet-y things in a way that isn't trite (I don't know if this is the right word exactly but it is the only way I know how to articulate this feeling). There seems to me to be this impenetrable wall of irony and disassociation surrounding the internet that thwarts any sort of sincere appraisals.

Does this make sense to anyone? Does anyone know what the hell Im talking about? Are there any good examples of recent fiction that deals thematically with the internet?

>>5854028
Can we agree that, after all the memes, DFW is still /lit/'s favorite author over all?
He's talked about more than anybody else here and Infinite Jest got the most votes for best novel on here.

>tfw 40 pages left in Infinite Jest
It's been a fun journey, but it's time to end.

>>4969682