David Foster Wallace

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the...

"[DFW's] delivery is dead-on and fresh, the words often springing from his mouth as if conceived on the spot . . . . an audible confirmation that modern American writing continues to gain strength." -- Publishers Weekly on Consider the Lobster Collected here for the first time are the stories...

The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword written and read by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart. “To my mind, there have been two great American...

In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at...

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in...

Una novela crítica, divertida y reflexiva sobre la adicción, el consumismo y la soledad de la sociedad norteamericana, desde una perspectiva de gran sabiduría y sentido del humor.

Un arriesgado triunfo del maestro de la narrativa inteligente. David Foster Wallace reinventa una vez más el arte de la ficción. Los ocho relatos que componen Extinción forman un universo surrealista en el que conviven la realidad más prosaica con delirantes espirales de la conciencia humana....

In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at...

Is John McCain "For Real?" That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when Mccain was increasingly perceived as a harbinger of change, the anticandidate whose goal was "to inspire...

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Iată cum o cultură marginală, considerată încă "tânără“ după aproape 50 de ani de afirmare, inspiră o carte atât de bogată în...

Dieser Live-Mitschnitt ist so tiefgründig, satirisch, spannend, originell, eindrucksvoll und traurig wie das Original...

En cuerpo y en lo otro reúne quince ensayos inéditos en España que ponen de manifiesto la inagotable curiosidad y la tremenda versatilidad lingüística del autor de La broma infinita....

Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time. Never has Wallace's seemingly...

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite." —New York Times Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace...

È stato uno tra gli scrittori più originali degli Stati Uniti, la penna più folle e coraggiosa degli ultimi decenni. Non solo autore di grandi opere narrative, ma anche - come in questo libro - osservatore finissimo, dotato di uno sguardo totale.

L’aclamat i malaguanyat escriptor David Foster Wallace reflexiona sobre alguns dels aspectes més importants de la vida...

Este artículo es una de las radiografías más agudas e irreverentes de la cultura americana de fin de siglo, en la que se entremezclan la familiaridad, el asombro y una mordacidad descabellada....

"Unendlicher Spaß" - so nannte James Incandenza seinen Film, der Menschen, die ihn anschauen, so verhext, dass sie sich nicht mehr von ihm lösen...

Jedes Jahr findet im Caesars Palace in Las Vegas die Verleihung der Adult Video News Awards statt, der Oscars der Pornoindustrie...

Escucha ahora este discurso que vio la luz en 2005 y ha sido debatido ampliamente tras la muerte del autor.