Has anyone read Church Not Made With Hands by DFW? It's from BIWHM, and it's perhaps the most compelling story in the collection, imo, which can be found via torrent if you're so inclined to join this dicussion and haven't read it (it's very short).
It seems to be about redemption and faith wrapped up in a dense, poetic language and there's a lot of elements of linguistic deconstruction taking place, I'm wondering what critical lens would be best to view this with- something along the lines of Derrida or Heideggar?
just read it senpai
>still have trouble reading the interviews themselves
what's the point
>>7415531
How? The Interviews themselves are pretty easy to digest.
Unless you just really hate DFW's style, which is understandable.
>>7415689
>Unless you just really hate DFW's style, which is understandable.
this, i love the guy and his interviews but his prose is fucking garbage.
have you ever read a review that so wholly misses the point of a book family?
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/01/books/books-of-the-times-calling-them-misogynists-would-be-too-kind.html
>>7415752
I wonder if this is Michiko KakutaniIt is
>>7415752
>talking shit about forever overhead
10/10 IM MAD AS HELL
>>7415752
>It is unclear just what point Mr. Wallace wants to make with these boring, repetitious and frequently repellent profiles, aside from the obvious one of examining the ways in which men can take advantage of women
>let me just point out the obvious and claim that's it
Has this reveiwer taken English 100? It reads like a 9th grade analysis, doing book reviews for NYT no less. Nepotism or something?
One thing I'm wondering specifically abt the story is the name of "Day" the main character.
Is it a metonym for David? Is there any relation? Are we just supposed to think in broad strokes with a character that sound like "archetypal human/day-night cycle of the planet"
Also, would rank the oeuvre
>Oblivion
>Brief Interviews
>Broom
>Pale King
>IJ
>consider the lobster
>everything and more
>girl with curious hair
>kenyon commencement speech packaged and marketed for profit after his death even tho he never put it to writing
>Oblivion
Story right here (halfway down page)
http://mreadz.com/new/index.php?id=367714&pages=36
>>7416162
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