![]() ![]() Adam Kelly, despite authoring the hugely influential paper responsible for Wallace’s association with New Sincerity, intriguingly concludes his 2016 review of Wallace criticism by suggesting its overwhelming stress on the "affirmative quality” of Wallace’s work risks failing to “capture the darker side of Wallace's dialectic, the bleaker aspects of his vision," which may, "in the end, be the most productive to consider” ("Critical" 59). In the large body of scholarship amassed by Wallace's work a critical axiom has emerged that his artistic project is ultimately redemptive, committed to upholding the values of compassion, authenticity, and empathy in the face of a prevalent alienation, extensively and disturbingly depicted, resulting from the ironic distance, paralyzing self-consciousness, and crushing boredom endemic to contemporary U.S. ![]() David Foster Wallace’s fiction is haunted by the spectral threats of solipsism and narcissism, evidence of a career-long preoccupation with the isolation and suffering of the modern subject. ![]()
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