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When David Foster Wallace mentions coming out of an "avant-garde" tradition in interviews, who's he talking about? I'm interested in reading his most direct influences.

>> No.16709927

>>16709903
t. Teen who hasn't lived a tough life

>> No.16709929

>>16709903
Most directly Don Delilo (he himself has mentioned this) and Pynchon.

>> No.16709934

>>16709903
Pynchon, Delilo and Manuel Puig are the most obvious ones

>> No.16709944

>>16709903
Literally just read postmodernists. Punching and Delillo he mentions a lot, he claims to be influenced by McCarthy. He notes Salinger directly influencing his early works. He's obviously influenced by Joyce, Mann and the modernists, whether he liked it or not

>> No.16709959

>>16709927
There's nothing wrong with that as long as you're self aware.

>> No.16711046

>>16709944
>Punching
isn't it Pin-shawn?

>> No.16711052

he’s talking about post modernists like Nabokov bro

>> No.16711099

>>16709903
DFW is referencing a future much more avant garde version of himself (CE+75) he befriended and kept up correspondence up to his last known day alive

>> No.16711111

>>16709944
>Salinger
>bananafishes himself
More than a slight influence I'd say.

>> No.16711121

>>16711111
Checked

>> No.16711122

>>16711046
It's "Pine-cone"

>> No.16711126

>>16711046
It's "Pinch-on"

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lately I've been praying The Oblivion

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>>16711139
I still have my lifesaver beeds

>> No.16711175

>>16711126
>>16711122
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fteM4HC4FRQ

>> No.16711336

>>16709903
Don Balloon

>> No.16711337

>>16709903
link intie pls

>> No.16711368

>>16709903
Probably most notably Pynchon and and Delillo. However, I suspect he'd also include Hawkes, Barth, Coover regarding aesthetics.

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>> No.16712600

>>16709903
probably a lot of small time forgotten contemporaries who published in the same literary journals as he

>> No.16712606

also Barth's stupid gimmicks in "lost in the funhouse" is the absolute first that comes to mind when he talks about "hallciously unfun" experimentalism, even if not really mind blowingly experimental

>> No.16713424

>>16709944
>punching
phone poster spotted

>> No.16713434

>>16709903
teen girl think dicc smell funny

>> No.16714023

>>16713424
And im a zoomer, too. And I'm published. And I'm having sex tonight, which I'll record on said phone