DFW collection reviewed

[pynchonoid]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/books/01KAKU.html
BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'OBLIVION'
Life Distilled From Details, Infinite and
Infinitesimal
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

Published: June 1, 2004

[...] Clearly Mr. Wallace is a prose magician. The
best of his earlier fiction and essays demonstrates
that he can make the English language run, jump, leap,
snarl and whisper; he can do meta-fiction,
old-fashioned fiction, ironic shtick and
post-postmodern sentiment or some combination of them
all at the same time. In this volume, however, he
gives us only the tiniest tasting of his smorgasbord
of talents. Instead, he all too often settles for the
sort of self-indulgent prattling that bogged down his
1999 collection, "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,"
and the cheap brand of irony and ridicule that he once
denounced in an essay as "agents of a great despair
and stasis in U.S. culture." [...] 

...and no obligatory Pynchnon-mention, imagine that.




	
		
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