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Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace

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  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 14.9 x 22.4 x 1.6 cm

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In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and The Pale King, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvre and places that writing in conversation with a philosophical tradition that includes Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among others. What emerges is a Wallace who not only speaks to our postmodern addictions in the age of mass entertainment and McDonald's but who seeks to address a quiet desperation at the heart of our modern lives. Freud said that the job of the therapeutic process was to turn "hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness." This book makes a case for how Wallace achieved this in his fiction.
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  • Title

    Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace

  • Author

    Jon Baskin

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    August 2019

  • Weight

    394g

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 22.4 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781503608337

  • ISBN-10

    1503608336

  • Eden Code

    4955224

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