Dancing Monkey Mania

• The POINT Magazine: DEATH IS NOT THE END: By Jon Baskin
  Insightul… "With the benefit of time, it will be recognized that Wallace had less in common with Eggers and Franzen than he did with Dostoevsky and Joyce. Against what he believed to be the outmoded theoretical commitments of his predecessors and contemporaries, he labored to return literary fiction to the deep problems of subjective experience. For those of us who came of age in the 1990s, his fiction was a relief and a gift. Confused, alienated and inauthentic though it might be, subjective consciousness still existed—and it was still the business of the novelist to describe it."
  (tags: artlinks dfw david_foster_wallace criticism writing literature)

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