A Not So Brief Interview With David Foster Wallace S Hideous Men
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Author: David Foster Wallace
language: en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date: 2009-09-24
In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.
A Not-so-brief Interview with David Foster Wallace’s Hideous Men
My thesis assesses the quality of self-conceptualisation and self- representation in David Foster Wallace’s anthology ‘Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.’ My first chapter articulates the struggle to represent the self, where I talk about the postmodern fragmentation of thought and language, alongside silencing as a motif in Wallace’s text. My second chapter then locates a subsequent, compromised self-representation that emerges from the struggle. This self-representation is “negotiated” within complex artistic, familial or relational spheres, and is ultimately characterised by shame, anger and lovelessness. Gender (as an oppressive force) is considered. My third chapter ultimately locates an alternative outcome in Wallace’s other characters, where their struggle to represent themselves results instead in an idealistic, constantly revising paralysis. Here, I focus on stylistic choices like repetition or a dialogic internal voice. Consistently, I am concerned with genre and how the gestural, episodic nature of the short story lends itself to disembodied, alienated depictions of the self. I conclude with reflections on masculinity and authorial reception.
Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Author: Stephen Burn
language: en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date: 2012-03-08
Conversations with the author of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Infinite Jest