![]() ![]() In this essay I trace out in detail two stories where Wallace directly engages with, and subverts, the theme and style of modernist masters. ![]() While scholars have traced out the influence of many of these sources, particularly with regards to postmodernists like Pynchon, DeLillo, and Barth, as well as international writers, such as Kafka, Borges, and Dostoevsky, one important dialogic partner for Wallace’s work that still has not been studied in enough depth is canonical modernism. It is well know that David Foster Wallace’s fiction borrowed from - and was indebted to - a variety of literary predecessors. ![]()
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