Eco sees the pun or calembour as the key feature of Joyce's ambiguous and ever changing novels

in his scabrous takedown of John Updike's Toward the End of Time

Wallace worked on his final novel under the klieg lights of his own substantial reputation

the most conspicuous feature of Wallace's late fiction is its radical drawing out of the time of consciousness relative to the time of diegetic action

These interstices where Wallace scholarship can find something like the new voices we are being told it so desperately needs?

Clouzot's Odette occupies a liminal space, trapped between the pure and perverse

the sibylline comment in French