David Foster Wallace
“In his final hours, he had tidied up the manuscript so that his wife could find it. Below it, around it, inside his two computers, on old floppy disks in his drawers were hundreds of other pages—drafts, character sketches, notes to himself, fragments that had evaded his attempt to integrate them into the novel. This was his effort to show the world what it was to be “a fucking human being.” He had not completed it to his satisfaction. This was not an ending anyone would have wanted for him, but it was the ending he chose.”
Mai multe intr-un articol lung din New Yorker, plus un interviu la Charlie Rose..
September 15th, 2009 at 2:42
Buna initiativa ta - felicitari!
“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being,” he once said. Good writing should help readers to “become less alone inside.”
Am copiat aici acest citat pentru ca mi s-a parut ca intregeste o descriere scurta a dorintelor lui ca artist …