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Consider the Lobster

And Other Essays

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Consider the Lobster

Von: David Foster Wallace
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A collection of David Foster Wallace’s witty and deeply observant essays exploring everything from lobster festivals and politics to the nature of human suffering, from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest. "brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" —Cleveland Plain Dealer

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?

David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

"Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." —New York Times Essays Philosophie Reiseliteratur & Erläuterungen
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“There is no writer alive more incisive and hilarious, more ruthlessly tender, when it comes to documenting the perversities of modern American life.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once.”—New York Times
“brilliantly entertaining…Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation’s best comic writer”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Okay, forget his short stories, forget his almost unreadbale, if enjoyable monster novel, these essays are a perfect was into the mind of one of the most brillant journalistic writers of our time. Taking seemingly simple assignments like writing about a lobster festival for a food magazine or reviewing a sports memoir, David Foster Wallace, with massive amounts of research and really deep thoughts, turns them into philosophical, ethical or artistic questions that define us as a species.
Wallace's voice reading his own material seems shockingly flat and hollow at first, almost expressionless. But stay with him, he is in his own way a perfect fit for the dry wit, the scathing sarcasm or the sober thoughtfulness of his own material. And if you only read or listen to one DWF essay, then "Big Red Son", which is the longest essay included here, should definitely be your pick. Enjoy!

This is what DFW is all about

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Not many writers are able to express themselves in such beautiful language. It is interesting to listen to him even if the subjects are not always relevant. However, they are scientist dissected which makes it interesting again

Excellent performance of an incredibly gifted writer

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