David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (* 1962 in Ithaca, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er studierte Literatur und Philosophie. Zeitweise Tennisprofi, lehrt er seit 2002 am Pomona College in Claremont, Kalif..

Werke

Fiktion

• The Broom of the System (1987), deutsch: Der Besen im System. Roman (2004)
• Girl with Curious Hair (1990), deutsch: Kleines Mädchen mit komischen Haaren. Stories (2001)
• Infinite Jest. A Novel (1996)
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999), deutsch: Kurze Interviews mit fiesen Männern. Stories (2002)
• Oblivion. Stories (2004)

Sonstiges

• Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present (1990, mit Mark Costello)
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997), deutsch: Schrecklich amüsant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich (2003)
• Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003)
• Consider the Lobster (angekündigt für Dezember 2005)

Literatur

Übersichten

• James Rother, "Reading and Riding the Post-Scientific Wave. The Shorter Fiction of David Foster Wallace." Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.2 (1993), 216-234. ISBN 1564781232
• Marshall Boswell, Understanding David Foster Wallace. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1570035172
• Iannis Goerlandt und Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace." Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors 56 (2004), 1-16; A1-2, B1-2.

Studien

• Tom LeClair, "The Prodigious Fiction of Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 38.1 (1996), 12-37.
• Frank Louis Coffi, "An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." Narrative 8.2 (2000), 161-181.
• Catherine Nichols, "Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 43.1 (2001), 3-16.
• Stephen Burn, "Generational Succession and a Source for the Title of David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System." Notes on Contemporary Literature 33.2 (2003), 9-11.
• Stephen Burn, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide. New York, London: Continuum, 2003 (= Continuum Contemporaries) ISBN 082641477X
• Michael Harris, "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of Everything and More." Notices of the AMS 51.6 (2004), 632-638. (pdf-Volltext)

Interviews

• Larry McCaffery, "An Interview with David Foster Wallace." Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.2 (1993), 127-150. ISBN 1564781232
• Laura Miller, "The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace." Salon 9 (1996). [1]
• "The Usage Wars." Radiointerview mit David Foster Wallace und Brian Garner. The Connection (30 March 2001).
• Michael Goldfarb, "David Foster Wallace." Radiointerview für The Connection (25 June 2004). (full audio interview)

Links

• Infinite Jest. Reviews, Artikel, & Sonstiges
• THE HOWLING FANTODS! - David Foster Wallace: Neuigkeiten, Info, Links
• Waste - Wallace Mailing Liste