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TRIGGER WARNING: Topic and subject deal with depression and suicide.
English professor and author David Foster Wallace committed suicide at age 46 in 2008, after suffering the black hole of crippling depression that consumed him for too many years. His prodigious talent created the novels “Broom of the System,” (1987), “Infinite Jest” (1996) and the posthumously published “The Pale King” (2011), short story collections and a trunk of essays and nonfiction. (One of my favorites was the book “Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity” (2003).)
Much has been written and discussed about Wallace’s stance on postmodernism and post-irony themes. Here’s a quote from his essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" (1993):
"I want to convince you that irony, poker-faced silence, and fear of ridicule are distinctive of those features of contemporary U.S. culture (of which cutting-edge fiction is a part) that enjoy any significant relation to the television whose weird, pretty hand has my generation by the throat. I'm going to argue that irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and that, at the same time, they are agents of a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture, and that, for aspiring fictionists, they pose terrifically vexing problems."
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