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Thomas Pynchon on David Foster Wallace
>“I’ve never gotten anything out of his writing. It has felt constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead. Prosaically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Wallace was a fucking bore. He made his books for the critics. One of the books, The Pale King, was set here in Illinois. It was mind-numbingly boring.”
Laurie Penny on David Foster Wallace:
>“His gifts as a writer were enormous. I just can’t take him very seriously as a thinker — and that’s where we seem to differ, because he did. His message is what he cared about, and, like most contemporary novel messages, it could be written on the head of a pin.”
John Green on David Foster Wallace:
>“Someone like David Foster Wallace is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good Stephen King book.”
What did they mean by this?
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thomas pynchon said something?
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>>8822481
>He doesn't listen to the Pynchon Podcast every Thursday
Plen as fuck
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>>8822481
this.
it's a poor attempt to diss DFW.
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>>8822468
I'm with Welles. I don't know how anyone takes Godard seriously as a thinker.
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>>8822468
>Pynchon accuses DFW of making his books for the critics
>DFW accuses Pynchon of writing his books for the critics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj0JgqOnK2M
poetry
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>>8822468
Infinite Jest is the comfiest of literature. The whole addiction/sincerity/entertainment/whatever themes I don't really care about, I just like when talks about the tennis academy and the halfway house. Same feeling I got when I read Harry Potter as a kid, makes me feel somehow not alone.
I do not like how he writes though, it feels completely lacking in any poetic sensibility.
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>Laurie Penny
>saying something thoughtful
>not utterly burying it in cliches and Narrative Journalism 101-esque prose
>no moralising that immediately seems sophomoric, unearned and validation-seeking to the reader
You lost me right out of the gate. Here's what Laurie Penny would say, if this were 2007 and anyone cared about Laurie Penny:
>David Foster Wallace, manocratic mansplaining patriauthor of the manosphere, was like all men: Male. I met up with him at the male-centric writers' convention in New York, home to many of the "great" men of the (I noticed, almost exclusively male except for 40-50% women) literary scene.
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>>8822468
Bloom on David Foster Wallace:
>Some may seize on it as a postmodern masterpiece, but it is a bloated monster of a book. (...) The bloat is a consequence of sheer adipose verbosity and an unremitting condition of moral and intellectual flatulence.
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