probably true that all the work of David Foster Wallace's focus on empathy. Not so much to get readers to empathize with the characters in his works, but rather that DFW gets himself feel genuine empathy for the characters he creates. Clearly, empathy by the reader comes later, but first must come from the writer. While DFW is a good home schooled child, whose parents are both university professors in 'Infinite Jest' get put on the skin of drug abusers have lowered the worst of hells. Almost hard to believe that he is the perfect intellectual neurotic guilt upper class can get under the skin (for example) of a woman addicted to cocaine that stand on the floor of a dirty motel a fetus not come into being, faceless, and then gets a sense of responsibility, wrapped in a blanket and carries it always with him as if he were alive, although increasingly more and more odor, and insects after her. But it gets. And he never described from outside but from within the same characters. Is embodied in his characters. So topic will be what Flaubert said that "Madame Bovary is me", but as taught 'Infinite Jest' sometimes topics are not only successful but also true. In his essays the same thing happens: his essays are nothing more than attempts to understand fully worlds away from him (luxury cruises, film porno, right-wing talk radio, the campaign of Senator McCain, etc.) And this willingness to empathize makes it one of the most honest writers I've ever read.
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