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“As Allan Bloom observes, flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among journalists and writers dependent on an audience. You will find these essays candid and I have paid a price for that candour.”—David Foster
Among these characteristically inflammatory essays, David Foster recounts, for the first time and in considerable detail, the impact upon him personally, and upon his career, of David Foster Wallace.
Some critical comment on Foster’s fiction:
“Patrick White’s worthy successor.”—Andrew Riemer
“Ornery satiric genius.”—Geordie Williamson
“So far ahead of everyone else it’s not funny.”—James Ley
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“it is a complex blending of the personal and the academic, of images and stories which centre around a set of central ideas: tawid, or the recognition of the sole reality of God; the relationship between God and creature (hahut) experienced as relationship with the Divine Female (Shakti, shekhina, Quan Yin, Fatima, the daughter of the prophet, and more); the nature of the primacy of vision and its relationship to the Clear Light seen at the moment of death, as described in the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of The Dead)… Foster has taken a set of impossible situations and experiences and turned them into essays that challenge our assumptions and preconceptions.” B. J. MUIRHEAD, Rochford Street Review
