Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one kind of infinity. Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics.
Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravu...
David Foster Wallace, Legende der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur, erzhlt die Geschichte des Unendlichen. Dieses Buch ist eine philosophische Einfhrung in ein groes Thema der Mathematik und zugleich eine Verneigung vor der Totalitt des Kosmos und der menschlichen Geisteskraft: Wie das Unendliche denken?
David Foster Wallace, Legende der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur, erzhlt die Geschichte des Unendlichen. Dieses Buch ist eine philosophische Einfh...
Wallace, David Foster Blumenbach, Ulrich Ingendaay, Marcus
§B§Der Chronist unserer rasenden Depression§§S§Nach dem Tod von David Foster Wallace schrieb Richard Powers, er sei der Beste unserer Generation gewesen. In diesem letzten Erzählungsband nimmt Wallace mit Schärfe und Witz die Deformationen des Menschen im Medienzeitalter aufs Korn. Und das mit großer Meisterschaft, egal, ob er von den üblen Folgen einer Schönheitsoperation erzählt oder vom Versuch eines Paares, in einem Schlaflabor zu ermitteln, wer durch sein Schnarchen wann wen vom Schlafen abhält.
§B§Der Chronist unserer rasenden Depression§§S§Nach dem Tod von David Foster Wallace schrieb Richard Powers, er sei der Beste unserer Generation...
"The Pale King" remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with questions of life's meaning and of the ultimate value of work and family.
"The Pale King" remained unfinished at the time of Wallace's death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as ...
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply...
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he...
"Es bleibt die Tatsache, dass sich der Hummer verzweifelt wehrt ..."§Jedes Jahr findet im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Maine das Maine Lobster Festival statt, bei dem innerhalb von vier Tagen mehr als 9.000 kg frischer Hummer verspeist werden, gekocht im größten Topf der Welt. David Foster Wallace besuchte 2003 dieses Festival, um im Auftrag der Feinschmeckerzeitschrift Gourmet eine Reportage zu schreiben. Wie schon bei "Schrecklich amüsant", der Beschreibung einer Kreuzfahrt, sind seine Beobachtungen so überraschend wie scharfsinnig.§Die Wahl der Maine Seegöttin, ein Kochwettbewerb, ein...
"Es bleibt die Tatsache, dass sich der Hummer verzweifelt wehrt ..."§Jedes Jahr findet im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Maine das Maine Lobster Festival...
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply...
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he...
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "Both Flesh and Not" gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time. Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; "Terminator 2" and "The Best of the Prose Poem"; the nature of being a fiction writer...
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review...
"The Review of Contemporary Fiction "is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.
"The Review of Contemporary Fiction "is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and ...
