NYTimes.com: ARDENT, even obsessive, fans of the novelist David Foster Wallace almost rival their idol in the torrents of words they use to detail their devotion. And if there is one constant within this torrent, it’s the extent to which readers see their own consciousness reflected in his novels and essays. Writing in 2008, soon after Wallace hanged himself at 46, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times of Wallace’s astounding voice: “Hyperarticulate, plaintive, self-mocking, diffident, overbearing, needy, ironical, almost pathologically self-aware (and nearly impossible to quote in increments smaller than a thousand words) — it was something you instantly recognized even hearing it for the first time. It was — is — the voice in your own head.”
Friday, March 16, 2012
Daniel Fish’s Take on David Foster Wallace
NYTimes.com: ARDENT, even obsessive, fans of the novelist David Foster Wallace almost rival their idol in the torrents of words they use to detail their devotion. And if there is one constant within this torrent, it’s the extent to which readers see their own consciousness reflected in his novels and essays. Writing in 2008, soon after Wallace hanged himself at 46, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times of Wallace’s astounding voice: “Hyperarticulate, plaintive, self-mocking, diffident, overbearing, needy, ironical, almost pathologically self-aware (and nearly impossible to quote in increments smaller than a thousand words) — it was something you instantly recognized even hearing it for the first time. It was — is — the voice in your own head.”
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