In the stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal...
In the stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.
我这一辈子就是个骗子。我没夸张。一直以来我做的几乎每一件事都是想方设法在其他人眼里营造出对我的某种印象。也就是说要讨人喜欢或受人欣赏。说是这样说，但也许还是有那么点复杂。但说的直白点，这样肯定会受人喜欢，被人爱戴。
My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I’m not exaggerating. Pretty much all I’ve ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It’s a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it’s to be liked, loved. (查看原文)
但那时候，一旦我考出好成绩或满大街涂鸦自己的名字或让安杰拉・米德同意我把手放到她的胸上时，我却什么也感觉不到，也许只是害怕下次再也做不到这样了吧。我想要的是下一次或下一样东西。
But then, once I got the best grade or made All City or got Angela Mead to let me put my hand on her breast, I wouldn’t feel much of anything except maybe fear that I wouldn’t be able to get it again. The next time or next thing I wanted. (查看原文)
这部短篇小说集所收入的9篇小说，由全本的《遗忘》（中译本按照Little,Brown and Company出版社2004年的版本译出）和选自《与丑陋男子的简短采访》中的《永远在上》这一篇所构成。作为译者，以下将对全书的构成、主题和潜在的导读信息做出个人性的解读，希望能对读者阅读这部小...
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大卫·福斯特·华莱士 作者
无人售票
人民文学出版社2022版
胡安焉
重庆大学出版社2014版
SANTONI
人民文学出版社2022版
icebee
重庆大学出版社2014版
Virgil
重庆大学出版社2014版
隐鹤
人民文学出版社2022版
Wash_Bottle
人民文学出版社2022版
0 有用 一只猪肘 2017-11-02 00:22:30
I'm obsessed with this man, know he's nothing but a hot mess hidden in a fraud.
0 有用 跳余烬者 2019-11-25 14:33:20
最喜欢Good Old Neon这个故事 过分自省有害无益 所以年轻人还是少读KY的公众号吧
0 有用 salty 2018-02-16 03:16:27
我。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
0 有用 Philex 2016-05-12 01:06:36
喵~ 阅读华莱士，是极少有的、感到智商受碾压的体验。 （尽量看英文版吧，他的作品真的不好翻）
0 有用 GuJi 2018-06-03 17:29:24
Not in the mood and experience to savor it.
0 有用 duckducker 2024-05-21 14:08:17 美国
Decorous dance of loneliness, shot optical daggers
0 有用 有方騅馬 2024-02-28 16:26:31 浙江
假装读过
0 有用 maomaoism 2023-08-24 14:57:05 美国
这家伙的长难句是真的恼人。居然提到了Cheers, Frasier, and Lilith哈哈。
0 有用 xkan 2022-02-24 05:17:26
人生无意义
0 有用 维拉薄荷糖 2020-10-28 02:48:39
如果对大部头望而生畏的话不如先读读这本。The Soul is not a Smithy和The Good Old neon两篇可以看做理解DFW本人如何感知世界和他是如何思考和并写作方式的钥匙。