"What the really great artists do is they're entirely

>>8450392
DFW never said he was a great artist though

>>8450392
>>themes from DeLillo

this is the only one you're right about

also this
>>8450399

>>8450400
the incandenza brothers = the karamazov brothers

>>8450405
The karamazov brothers = the kardashian brothers


whats your point

>>8450419
read more

>>8450392
He actually (and self-admittedly) tried to crib Gaddis more than any of those guys. It shows through more in Broom of the System.

>>8450431
1. he didnt read gaddis until after broom of the system was published (see d.t. max bio)

2. the author is the worst person to ask about his influences because of course he wants to hide them. lot 49 is all over broom of the system, and gravity's rainbow is all over infinite jest. i've heard the interview you're thinking of, the host of the show brings up pynchon, the author whose influence wallace was *most* sensitive about (because he had the *most* influence). he had a picture of pynchon on his wall in college (again, see bio) and yet he denied having read lot 49 before he wrote broom of the system (in his last year of college). so yeah, dont accept the author's word about influences.

>>8450405
>reaching

if anything, the allusion while maintaining the incandenza brothers as their own characters shows skill, not weakness

>>8450443
haha, is that what you hope the critics will say about your own derivative shit?

>>8450392
>plot from Shakespeare
what is reference
>style from Pynchon
what is influence
>dialogue from Salinger
objectively wrong
>characters from Dostoevsky
see: Shakespeare, but it's heavily false
>themes from DeLillo
what is being american

>>8450450
i'm not a writer but nice deflection