Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Francis Kerline L'Amérique, dans un futur proche. Les U.S.A., le Canada et le Mexique ont formé une fédération surpuissante, et la Société du Spectacle a gagné :...

David Foster Wallace n'était pas qu'un grand romancier. C'était aussi un essayiste chez qui l'humour côtoyait une lucidité redoutable. Ce premier tome de Considérations sur le homard regroupe les textes...

« Faire de quelqu’un une icône, c’est le transformer en abstraction, et les abstractions sont incapables d’une communication vitale avec les vivants. » Le premier tome de Considérations sur le homard...

« C’est l’histoire de deux jeunes poissons qui nagent ensemble. Ils rencontrent un poisson plus vieux qui nage en sens inverse. Le vieux poisson leur fait un signe de tête et dit : "Salut, les gars. L’eau...

Une femme solitaire et déprimée lutte contre la maladie avec l’aide d’un thérapeute, d’une poignée d’amis proches et d’antidépresseurs. Dans cette nouvelle issue du recueil Brefs entretiens avec des hommes...

Deux enfants sont abandonnés sur une aire d’autoroute. Des années plus tard, sur le plateau du célèbre jeu télévisé Jeopardy, une jeune fille enchaîne les victoires. Issue du recueil La FIlle aux cheveux...

Cambridge, 1989. David Foster Wallace et son ami de fac Mark Costello découvrent qu’ils partagent le même enthousiasme « un peu inconfortable, quelque peu furtif, et très distinctement blanc » pour le...

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed...

Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. In this hilarious essay, originally published...

A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to...

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow...

Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop.Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend and room-mate Mark...

A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings...

Quando fu pubblicata per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti, nel 1989, questa raccolta di racconti confermò David Foster Wallace (all'epoca già autore di un inconsueto romanzo, "La scopa del sistema") come...

Questa è la storia di sei personaggi in viaggio verso un luogo dove forse non arriveranno mai; è la storia di una poetessa ambiziosa che compone versi fatti tutti di consonanti, di un Ronald McDonald...

Da anni impegnata nella ricerca della letteratura angloamericana di qualità, minimum fax celebra una delle sue più grandi scoperte, David Foster Wallace, con la riedizione dei titoli che hanno fatto conoscere...

La brillante originalità dello stile, e soprattutto la capacità di raccontare in maniera commovente e acuta le contraddizioni del nostro tempo - sia in forma narrativa che saggistica - hanno fatto di...

Un capolavoro di comicità e virtuosismo stilistico con cui i lettori italiani hanno conosciuto il genio letterario di David Foster Wallace. Commissionatogli inizialmente come articolo per la prestigiosa...

Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. In this hilarious essay, originally published...

These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation....

From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster: a collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer...

This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is "brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic...

Is John McCain "For Real?" That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when Mccain was...

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...

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in...

Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers,...

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his....

Both Flesh and Not is an collection of essays and writing from the virtuosic genius David Foster WallaceBeloved for his brilliantly discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely generous imagination,...

The Director's Cut (three times longer than the RS article) is an incisive, funny, thoughtful piece about life on "Bullshit One" -- the nickname for the press bus that followed McCain's Straight Talk...

'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian... he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddam him' Zadie Smith, Guardian'David Foster Wallace turns the short story upside down and inside...