I just wish he was still alive and saw that people are still talking about IJ so that he would write about 2019 and SJW...

this doesnt work here lol

Suicide is always such a waste.

I get his message for the most part, I just don't like his style

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What is with this dumb board and DFW? Surely there’s other famous people you can enjoy

So many David Foster Wallace threads lately, I can smell his ashes form as the blood binds him back as his soul travels from hell so he may walk the earth again

>he foresaw the marginalization of white people
I wish this were true.

Leave.

>Why are people on a literature board talking about the best 21st century American author? >:(

Infinity Gauntlet by Dallas Fort Worth

>he foresaw the marginalization of white people, the Western Canon, and common sense. He was reacting against post-modernism
He did none of that. He even insults Bloom for defending the canon.

He would side with basic decency (which you know as "SJW culture") and call people like you out as the insecure and emotionally retarded twats you are.

I'm glad he's dead precisely so I DON'T have to read his "takes" on contemporary cringe culture

You wouldn't have had to read them regardless dummy. Clearly this guy spoke to a lot people so I'm not sure why you're glad he's dead.

Not really. He had a pretty good and easy life.

they would be reposted on an imageboard I frequent D—U—M—M—Y

Boohoo dumbbum

right back atcha

Pontificating. Now that's a nice word.

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Pussy?

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Because he's the first metamodernist author American college students are introduced to, and thus latch to. IJ is the current in a long trend of 'I'm super deep look at me' books. He's derivative of the authors and artists that should actually be praised, and by derivative I mean to the point where it becomes vulgar and repulsive.
There's a fantastic example from IJ that I always use. There's a scene fairly early on where a couple of the wheelchair fags are standing on a mountain, with their shadow over the city. Brockengespenst. This was meant as a direct tie to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, but demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the philosophical and spiritual connotations.
Essentially, DFW is the complete embodiment of a hack, and other hacks latch to that.
This popcorn garbage does not deserve to be labeled literature.

copy that

Also going pre-emptively poke a hole in an argument.
Him calling his writing style 'New Sincerity' or whatever is probably the most fucking pretentious thing I've ever seen, and I read fucking finnegan's wake.
He's metamodernist. Stop with this 'he's unique and special' garbage. Go read more books for fucks sake, you're on a goddamn lit board, holy fuck.
How many of you have read Murakami? Gaddis?
Exactly.

>Him calling his writing style 'New Sincerity'
where

Because he and his most famous work are gigantic memes

He is directly credited with popularizing the term.
Jesus, this has made me realize just how much I don't like this guy. He did so much damage to the literary world it's incredible.
jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
harvard.academia.edu/AdamKelly/Papers/1088755/David_Foster_Wallace_and_the_New_Sincerity_in_American_Fiction

>jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
>ctrl-f new sincerity

only true answer. anyone who reads Infinite Jest and enjoys it for its meme potential, higher memetics IRL, and all-around memery is doing it right, everybody else does it wrong bigly.

Since it appears reading has confounded you, this may be more your speed
wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sincerity

wiki's down

You're probably baiting at this point, but in case you're not, this is from the first linked work. Pretentious as holy fuck.

The next real literary "rebels" in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point. Maybe that's why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today's risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the "Oh how banal". To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows.

>ctrl-f new sincerity

>ctrl+f sincerity
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>>Him calling his writing style 'New Sincerity'

Are there any postmodern american authors who take an explicitly anti leftist and antiglobohomo perspective? the npc left has grown hostile to any sort of creative or actually deconstructive thought, either ironic or post ironic, it all feels like the same pseudo soviet proletkult disneyfied consumer slop and therapeutic buzzwords. It is official literature which is not there to be read but to present an acceptable simulacrum of politically correct literature.

>this is the level of intelligence that the average dfw fan has

For me personally, I feel DFW is a cul-de-sac in the history of literature, not only in regard of form, style, but also in his principles, his philosophy. However, he was a necessary dead end (this is not punny).

>dfw fan

This strikes me as an incredibly interesting take, definitely a defendable stance. Viewing him as a product rather than a producer is something I'd like to think on more. It may turn my disgust in him to something more akin to pity.

>SJW outrage culture and feminism
why would he write about this? why is this so important?

Because he was a spoiled american child that never faced adversity or hardship in his entire life, and thus stuck to societal hardships to grasp as concepts.

I am convinced Sam Hyde is the reincarnation of DFW or that both men are somehow linked in a deep metaphysical level

with based celine on the table, naturally