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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
As I was reading about him, I was reminded of the comment concerning Updike: minor novelist with a major style.
What did Wallace ever do in real life that would make him have any insight into anything? Depressions, drugs, alcohol, rehab. What else? It's like he wanted to create redemption through literature without ever living it first. You got to get off your ass and do something for other people. Maybe, because of his demons, he couldn't. And that is sad. He couldn't create the thing he longed to, because he wasn't the person he longed to be.
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This reminded me of the Nobel committee's recent attack on American literature.
http://www.slate.com/id/2201447/
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Last edited by SeattleUte; 03-05-2009 at 07:52 PM.
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