Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is 'brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer' (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone?

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form (Hering David)(Paperback)

In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the

David Foster Wallace Reader (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,' excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like 'The Depressed

Both Flesh And Not (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen

The Best American Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third

Pale King (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending

Infinite Jest (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication (Wallace David Foster)(Pevná vazba)

Zapomnění - David Foster Wallace

Svůj poslední soubor povídek Zapomnění psal David Foster Wallace paralelně s již nedokončeným románem Bledý král. Kniha vyšla roku 2004. Témata osobní identity a možností porozumění i sebeporozumění se ve Wallaceových textech prolínají s nejsoučasnějšími technikami

Krátké rozhovory s odpornými muži - David Foster Wallace

V Krátkých rozhovorech s odpornými muži (1999) podává David Foster Wallace zprávu o lidských bytostech zasažených úzkostí, nejistotou a osamoceností. Formálně rozmanitý soubor povídek je jakousi verbální anatomií vztahu mezi pohlavími, výpravou do světa myslí a těl

The Broom of the System (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of

The Sound Inside (Rapp Adam)(Paperback)

'The closest thing that the American theater currently has to a David Foster Wallace, Rapp can give you the head rush of sophisticated literary allusion and unreliable narrative trickery la Dostoevsky, and yet talk of Plano, Illinois, and let you know that he knows exactly how it feels...A

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

* 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose'

Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback / softback)

*Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

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 takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg

Infinite Jest (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why

Oblivion: Stories (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

* A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation'

Burnt Tongues Anthology (Thomas Richard)(Paperback)

'The lessons and the antidotes and the essays that went into Consider This were originally written for The Cult website. The stories that went into Burnt Tongues were exercises based on those lessons. So if you like Consider This, please check out Burnt Tongues and see how those lessons were put

Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/Ing Latin American Writing (Foster David William)(Paperback)

A queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American

The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages (Case Paul Foster)(Paperback)

Many students of the Western esoteric tradition consider Paul Foster Case's The Tarot the finest explanation that has yet appeared on the occult meaning of numbers, the construction of the Tarot, and the attribution of the 22 Major Trumps to the Hebrew alphabet. In clear and understandable

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (Makhno Nestor)(Paperback)

A collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. 'The Struggle Against the State and other Essays' sheds valuable insight onto the man and the movement that bore his

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)

The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (Rowe Colin)(Paperback)

This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the

The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays: 2nd Edition (Hayley Jay)(Paperback)