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Lädt ... The Pale King (2011. Auflage)von David Foster Wallace
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Al recién llegado David F. Wallace, los agentes del Centro Regional de Examen de la Agencia Tributaria de Peoria, Illinois, le parecen de lo más normal. A medida que se adentra en la tediosa y repetitiva rutina de su trabajo, conocerá la magnífica variedad de personalidades que han sentido la llamada de hacienda. Su llegada coincide, además, con el recrudecimiento de fuerzas conspiratorias que pugnan por despojar el trabajo del rastro de humanidad y dignidad que todavía queda. I couldn't give this book a higher rating because it's just a glimpse of what the finished book would have been like. This reads like a first draft of a possibly brilliant book, as expected from DFW, but I couldn't help but sense that it would turn out to be very much like Infinite Jest, though it differs thematically it seems like a spiritual successor. Which is both a good and a bad thing, I guess. From the endnotes in which he clearly states where the story was going, it seemed to be much more interesting than the brief, jumbled scenes we got to read. The long conversation between Meredith Rand and Drinion stands out for me, as well as DW's arrival at the REC. It seems an interesting point would have been made regarding discipline (as opposed to boredom which has been what most critics/reviewers focused on). But alas, we'll never know. I think DFW knew he would have a hard time topping Infinite Jest (if not in literary quality, at least in people's perceptions of its quality and cultural relevance) and that's what made it a lengthy and ultimately impossible job for him to finish it. But it is a very enjoyable ride. You never get tired of reading DFW, even if it's unpolished. I'll have to read all of his essay and short story collections to get my fix now, but this book provided a momentary relief from the emptyness left by his passing. This is perhaps the worst of DFW's late (published) work. When one understands the enormous amount of editing that goes into DFW's wordy, effortless passages, one begins to appreciate how far this book is from meeting DFW's own standards of publication. After having produced Oblivion which displays a masterful refinement of his early work (and has produced a lasting effect on the genre) one must ask, what, exactly, does one come away with after having read The Pale King. For the asaccharine reviewer, this is a small refinement of Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way which was already one of his weakest works.
Unfinished or no, it’s worth reading this long, partly shaped novel just to get at its best moments, and to ponder what Wallace, that excellent writer, would have done with the book had he had time to finish it himself. 'By turns breathtakingly brilliant and stupefying dull — funny, maddening and elegiac — “The Pale King” will be minutely examined by longtime fans for the reflexive light it sheds on Wallace’s oeuvre and his life.' Gehört zu VerlagsreihenHat eine Studie überAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Der letzte Roman von David Foster Wallace, dem "Besten seiner Generation" In seinem letzten, posthum erschienenen Roman vollbringt David Foster Wallace das Kunststück, auf gar nicht langweilige Weise über den langweiligsten Arbeitsplatz der Welt zu schreiben: die amerikanische Steuerbehörde. Mit der ihm eigenen sprachlichen Brillanz nähert sich David Foster Wallace in diesem nachgelassenen Roman seinem Thema: Was macht strukturelle Langeweile aus einem Menschen? Als Claude Sylvanshine nach Peoria in Illinois an die IRS, die amerikanische Bundessteuerbehörde, versetzt wird, trifft er dort auf Kollegen, die mit der tagtäglichen, unüberwindbaren Monotonie ihrer Arbeit und somit ihres Lebens kämpfen. Welche Lebensgeschichten führten dazu, dass jemand mehr oder weniger freiwillig einen solchen Beruf ergreift? Der Roman erschien in den USA drei Jahre nach Wallace' Tod und wurde zum gefeierten Bestseller. In ihm zeigt David Foster Wallace noch einmal sein ganzes Können - die unübertroffene Originalität seiner Sujets, die sprachliche Präzision, der sezierende Blick auf die Unzulänglichkeiten menschlicher Gesellschaft und der immer präsente Humor. "Einer der schrägsten, traurigsten und eindringlichsten Romane, die ich je gelesen habe" The Guardian "Atemberaubend brillant, lustig, unerträglich und elegisch" The New York Times "Wallace bestechendster Roman" Time
Claude Sylvanshine wird an die amerikanische Bundessteuerbehörde versetzt. Er lernt Kollegen kennen, die an der Monotonie ihrer Arbeit und damit auch ihres Lebens verzweifeln. Er forscht nach den Geschichten, die hinter den Menschen stehen. Posthum erschienener Roman des 2008 verstorbenen Autors. (Gabriele Oberhauser-Gutheil) Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The frustrating thing, for me, was to see in the 'Notes and Asides' how much more there would have been to the novel had he lived to finish it.
But the core is there, the core being his attempt to answer certain questions about how to live in a world where we're threatened by either boredom or too much information, all the time. How do we pay attention to things that matter? In a way, the themes here are one level down from those in Infinite Jest. If Infinite Jest was about the effects of our desire to always be entertained, to have every moment be pleasurable, The Pale King is about the the emotions and cultural experiences that brought us to that desire for constant pleasure. ( )