Endnotes: David Foster Wallace

[Tore Rye Andersen]

rich:
 
> DFW had alot of talent but I'm not sure he will ever be seen as
> translating that talent into more than a cult figure following
 
Surely DFW had more than just talent? I remember you calling Infinite Jest "the novel of the
90es," and I tend to agree. And doesn't it take more than just talent to write the novel of the decade?
 
As for the cult following, DFW has garnered both more mainstream and more academic attention these past
couple-three years than Pynchon. Of course this partly has to do with the suicide, but I'd say that the intrinsic
merit of his work also has a lot to do with it.
 
Tore