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Who should I read and/or how well read should I be before picking up anything by DFW?

>> No.23124137

>>23124128
DFW is entry-level, no prereqs required

>> No.23124146

>>23124128
Every issue of the New Yorker, Harpers and NYRB since 1980. Also maybe read some American polemics on Derrida and Lacan.

>> No.23124148

>>23124128
Ellul, Postman, Nietzsche, McLuhan, Tocqueville, Franklin's autobiography, the constitution, Dostoevsky, and the Bible.

>> No.23124199

>>23124128
Just wrap your head with a rag and dive in.

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>>23124128
>>23124199
This. Just keep in mind: 'Remington-hung' refers to attached kind of painting.

>> No.23124231

>>23124128
Pynchon

>> No.23124256

>>23124128
>how well read should I be
The fact that you are asking retarded questions like this means you fit perfectly into DFW's target audience of undergraduate pseuds.

>> No.23124257

>>23124128
He killed the 'encyclopedic novel' as a gimmick. At most Don Quixote & Ulysses/Finnegan's Wake. Wallace was everything the former was satirizing, hence the warranted imposter syndrome and self-annihilation performance art. He is a dead end, as was all the post-WW2 Boomer tomes marketed for brick of wood pulp premium to undiscerning readers.

>> No.23124302

>>23124128
Read Call of the Crocodile first

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>>23124257
Please elaborate my good sir