Two of the trials of David Foster Wallace who helped me understand more David Foster Wallace (ironically or not) are two trials of two other authors: Kafka and Dostoevsky, who happen to be two of my favorite writers. Can be found in the book 'Let's lobsters' and these are two great tests you not only spread a irresistible desire to read (or reread, if necessary) these two authors but also give a view new two authors who seem that everything has been said. In the essay on Dostoevsky, DFW argues that today if someone wrote as Dostoevsky would laugh in their faces, because Dostoevsky is a serious writer who deals with serious themes, talk philosophy and religion in a serious and deep, and we are accustomed to perpetual cynicism, to wear a mask of irony prevents us to take nothing seriously. In the essay on Kafka, Kafka argues that DFW is dark and depressing, but it also has a hilarious sense of humor. Kafka is the perfect example of that can be serious and far-reaching yet fun. (And I also think with Dostoevsky's the same: I laugh a lot by reading Dostoyevsky.) And basically what it purports to DFW is to get this: make a play but also fun serious. Dose low-key irony is fine and literature helps us to move away from sentimentality, but the irony in preventing excessive doses displayed some feeling, which is not the same as sentimentality, but sometimes it seems that we want to believe it. And DFW's work is this: a struggle to escape both the irony and sentimentalism simple pure aconseguir a struggle for the right balance between humor and sentiment.
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