Apr 8, 2019
"Wallace's invocation of Beckett so early in his career offers an interesting angle on his use of both silence and incompletness; we might think in particolar of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men in this respect, particularly that recurrent, precise figure of the ellipsis, which evokes Beckett's exacting stage directions regarding the lenght of silences. Beckettian or otherwise, Wallace is certainly a writer for whom silence is productive, and for whom completiom signifies a form of failure: the failure of perfection, which is commonly associated with death."
- The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace by Clare Hayes-Brady
