Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of _The Pale King_

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an analysis of TPK and its narrative structure. about the process of writing it (reconstructing from his notes) and the problems with criticism of an unfinished novel. how lots of stuff he wrote for TPK was repurposed for Oblivion. a character for TPK who was scrapped: journalist named "Frank Brown", going undercover in the IRS, which was replaced by the Author Here parts of TPK


        Hering, D. (2016). Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King. In Hering, D. David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 123-215

report or represent in outline; foreshadow or symbolize

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as the collection does not come together organically as much as adumbrate the problems Wallace was having with his third novel

—p.132 by David Hering

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as the collection does not come together organically as much as adumbrate the problems Wallace was having with his third novel

—p.132 by David Hering

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a term defined by literary critic Harold Bloom as "return of the dead"; the author is encumbered by his previous state of solitude and holds his work open for inspection with that of his predecessors

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performs a kind of apophrades whereby

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notable

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performs a kind of apophrades whereby

—p.144 by David Hering

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a tendency to extreme loquacity

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dismissive comment about Fogle's logorrhoea

—p.157 by David Hering

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dismissive comment about Fogle's logorrhoea

—p.157 by David Hering

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David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form
by David Hering

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form
by David Hering

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form
by David Hering