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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008)
Titre(s) : A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again [Texte imprimé] : essays and arguments / David Foster Wallace
Publication : New York ; Boston ; London ; Back Bay books : Little, Brown, 1998
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (353 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again collects David Foster Wallace's writings
on a range of subjects that only he could bring together. From personal narratives
to tennis, film, philosophy, and postmodern literary theory, no subject is outside
the play of his imagination. In "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away
from It All", a finalist for the 1995 National Magazine Award, Wallace gorges himself
on corn dogs, gawks at baton twirlers, and gropes toward the true meaning of the all-American
Institution the State Fair. In the title essay, one of the most talked about (and
frequently photocopied) nonfiction pieces of the-year, Wallace reports with excruciating
humor the agonies of enduring forced fun on a commercial cruiseliner. Wallace's sports
obsession comes out in an essay about the unfathomable gulf between professional tennis
players and the merely excellent. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" explores
the deep currents affecting both popular arts and literary craft, while "David Lynch
Keeps His Head" is at once a portrait of the artist at work and an appreciation of
the far-reaching cultural influence a popular artist can have
Sujet(s) : Littérature humoristique américaine
Humour américain
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0316919896. - ISBN 9780316919890 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466035907
Notice n° :
FRBNF46603590
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Table des matières : Derivative sport in tornado alley ; E unibus pluram : television and U.S. fiction
; Getting away from already being pretty much away from it all ; Greatly exaggerated
; David Lynch keeps his head ; Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry
as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, discipline, joy, grotesquerie,
and human completeness ; A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again.
