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Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
Verlag: Back Bay Books; Auflage: Back Bay Pbk. (1. April 2000)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0316925195
ISBN-13: 978-0316925198
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 14 x 2,5 x 21,3 cm

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David Foster Wallace is every other writer's nightmare; not only is he depressingly young (34), superbly prolific (six books so far) and notably gifted (at least three major literary prizes to date), he's also good-looking and, so they say, charming. Now this Midwestern wunderkind has added to his ever-growing reputation by bringing out a short-story collection which, while it has its flaws (too intellectual in places, somewhat over-written in others), is still a few streets ahead of the competition in its versatility, panache and verbal ebullience.

The varying length of the stories in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men indicate the range of Wallace's writing. Some, like the funny/dark "Death Is Not The End", about a gifted American writer (ha) lounging by his pool in suspended space-time, are no more than two pages long. Others are just paragraphs. By contrast, the title story is a 100-page-long suite of "conversations" with a series of repellent yet pitiable men given to lyrically reminiscing about "the sort of glorious girl whose kiss tastes of liquor when she's had no liquor to drink". The pay-off is that this girl might have been raped and murdered by one of the "hideous men" in question.

Wallace's prose-style is as various as the length, tone and subject matter. Sometime he's like Will Self in his wordy self-confidence. Other times he's as coarsely comedic as Irvine Welsh ("the rawness and tenderness and spanked pink head of his thingie"). Still other times, like in the deft and amusing parody of dictionary-speak, Datum Centurio, the only possible comparison is with a talkative James Joyce after two bottles of champagne. --Sean Thomas -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace's latest collection, is at least in part a response to the distress signal put out by the many readers who want to ride along with him, if he'd only slow down for a second.

The intellectual gymnastics and ceaseless rumination endure (if you don't have a tolerance for that kind of thing, your nose doesn't belong in this book), but they are for the most part couched in simpler, less frenzied narratives. The book's four-piece namesake takes the form of interview transcripts, in which the conniving horror that is the male gender is revealed in all of its licentious glory. In the short, two-part "The Devil Is a Busy Man," Wallace strolls through the Hall of Mirrors that is human motivation. (Is it possible to completely rid an act of generosity of any self-serving benefits? And why is it easier to sell a couch for five dollars than it is to give it away for free?) The even shorter glimpse into modern-day social ritual, "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life," stretches the seams of its total of seven lines with scathing economy: "She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces." Wallace also imbues his extreme observational skills with a haunting poetic sensibility. Witness what he does to a diving board and the two darkened patches at the end of it in "Forever Overhead":

It's going to send you someplace which its own length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without even thinking.... They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of people with real weight.

Of course, not every piece is an absolute winner. "The Depressed Person" slips from purposefully clinical to unintentionally boring. "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" reimagines an Arthurian tale in MTV terms and holds your attention for about as long as you'd imagine from such a description. Ultimately, however, even these failed experiments are a testament to Mr. Wallace's endless if unbridled talent. Once he gets the reins completely around that sucker, it's going to be quite a ride. --Bob Michaels -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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infinite jest, sure, but get to the punchline 20. Juni 2000

Von Zachary Howard

Format:Taschenbuch

If you've read Infinite Jest all the way to the end, you're probably, like myself, a fan. But a fan isn't someone who subscribes to every utterance, doodle, note to self, or self-aggrandizing work of an artist. A fan can be selective. In this collection, Wallace basically turns on all his fans and says, "Remember that maximalist style I capitalized upon in 'Infinite Jest'? Well, I can still do it, for a long time, too. In fact, I can talk about nothing for pages and pages and still keep you interested, because you read 'Infinite Jest'." I'm uninterested. Some stories start off with the post-modern sheen which Wallace has brought to polished fruition, but eventually they're mired down by the author's love of words...and himself. The one exception is "Forever Overhead," the writing of which, so personal yet so distant, is the same style that made me enamored with 'Infinite Jest'. If you're looking for genius, you've found it, but if you're looking for applied genius, read 'Infinite Jest,' or maybe the Bible, and then Life's Little Instruction Book, or maybe something by Caleb Carr or Danielle Steele. Because they rock.

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All the things we are 30. Mai 2000

Von Jeff Abell

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Last summer, while researching a lecture on male sexuality andmonster movies, (rent "An American Werewolf in London,"okay?) I was delighted by Wallace's title. It took a year to get around to reading the book, but it would have made agreat addition to the lecture. Everything you've imagined about men and how they think is seen through the alternately funny and terrifying fun-house mirror of Wallace's prose. The "brief interviews" that run throughout the book reveal men as manipulative, unaware, and incredibly vulnerable, and as such are poignantly real . . . Even "The Depressed Person," which seems to be most reviewers least favorite selection, had me rolling on the floor, but then, I share office space with a therapist, so all the talk about "Inner-Child Focused Therapeutic Retreat Weekends" seemed awfully close to home. Admittedly, f-ing brilliant is a difficult level to sustain for a whole book, and Wallace, like any guy, can't always keep it up. But when he does, stand back! This needs to be required reading for college classes on gender, or for anyone who wants to know if guys really do think like that. (Yes, Virginia....)

Wallace at his absolute best 24. M�rz 2000

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Why hasn't anyone mentioned the wonderfully complex and fun "Octet"? That story/belletristic exercise/whatever is, by itself, worth the price of 'Brief Interviews.' I cannot imagine anyone except DFW writing such a marvelously tangential tracery, and making it work.

To the person above who takes issue with footnotes, I think the person you should be blaming is actually Nabokov, by the way.

This is an amazing book: it should be read over and over and over again.

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Read anything but this book.

I consider myself a big DFW fan (Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing... are two of my favorite books), so I bought this one when it first came out in hardcover. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 21. Juli 2000 ver�ffentlicht

Curious, Fresh and Wonderful

David Foster Wallace is every other writer's nightmare; not only is he depressingly young (34), superbly prolific (six books so far) and notably gifted (at least three major... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 3. Mai 2000 von Richard Brooke

don't let this one mislead you

i may very well be his biggest fan, but i did not enjoy this book. it felt sad to me, like he wasn't enjoying himself when he wrote it. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 27. Februar 2000 von Lisa

This guy rocks

I (finally) finished reading "Infinite Jest," and immediately had to pick this one up.

The book is full of random stories, some good, some not so good. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 16. Februar 2000 von David E. Hoover

Well, I don't know...

Sometimes DFW seems scared of being honest, like he's trapped in the postmodern "we all know what we're doing here" cliches he seems alternately scared of and disdainful... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 21. Januar 2000 von Andrew Lindemann Malone

A unique and highly enjoyable read

David Foster Wallace has done it again, but in a grander fashion than ever before. The stories contained within "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" are complex, funny,... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 10. Dezember 1999 von Stephen Kozle

Best-pressed book.

This is my most-lent book.

Nigh-schitzophrenic writing is generously tempered with a gourmet vocabulary, making the deep, jerky ride of his stories extremely readable. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 8. Dezember 1999 von "sody-pop"

David Foster Wallace is the man

There's no doubt in my mind that DFW is the best fiction writer living in this country. _Brief Interviews_ is astoundingly funny and sad and completely pertinent. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 11. Oktober 1999 von Jon Miller-Carrasco

Lengthy Soliloquies on Boring Themes

A collection of stories has more latitude in shorting plot and characterization than a novel does, but this collection's stories goes way overboard in exiguity. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 11. Oktober 1999 ver�ffentlicht

expectations are high--very fun (and difficult) to read

I am a dfw fan to begin with. The selection in the book that contains the "quizzes" is probably the most remarkable piece of fiction I have ever read--in the sense that... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 17. September 1999 ver�ffentlicht