★孤独怪异的头号天才，强烈致瘾的神奇佳作！大卫·福斯特·华莱士短篇小说集
★ 大卫·福斯特·华莱士，当代作家中的独特存在，美国千禧一代青年心中的精神偶像
★ 媲美托马斯·品钦、唐·德里罗的后现代小说家，与乔纳森·弗兰岑并称美国文学“双璧”
★ 麦克阿瑟天才奖得主，代表作《无尽的玩笑》被《时代》周刊评选为1923年以来世界百部zui佳英文小说之一，遗作《苍白的国王》入围普利策奖
★ 本书（oblivion）为华莱士生前最后一部短篇小说集，曾入选2004年《纽约时报》年度图书
《永远在上》是大卫·福斯特·华莱士的短篇小说集，收录了华莱士九篇风格多样、精彩绝伦的短篇小说，其中包括备受赞誉的《永远在上》，小说将一个少年从登上高台到跳入水中的过程及其心境变化写得丝丝入扣，村上春树称其为“一篇将冷酷与温情溶于一炉的神奇佳作”。之外还收录有2002年获得欧•亨利短篇小说奖的《美好的昔日霓虹》，以及《受难频道》《另一个先锋》《遗忘》等名篇。整个短篇集是华莱士关于“现实性，梦想，心灵伤害以及意识动态”的深入探索，体现了华莱士惊人的心灵洞察力和天才的文学禀赋。
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这一代的美国作家当中，华莱士是被坊间议论最多的人。他属于后现代新生代。他在托马斯·品钦和唐·德里罗德影响下开始写小说，以其不无挑战意味的文体和内容持续搅动文学界。老实说，他的作品并非美文，有时甚至让人觉得“难以卒读”，却又不是故作晦涩。文体本身严谨工致得令人吃惊，词语同词语有机地融为一体——到底原来专门学过数学——因此，你一旦摸到门路（如果你想的话），最初的违和感很快就会消失。
尤其这篇《永远在上》，将一个少年从登上高台到跳入水中的过程及其心境变化写得丝丝入扣。华莱士将那种数列解析式的性感文体运行得卓有成效。这是一篇将冷酷与温情溶于一炉的神奇佳作。 ——村上春树
华莱士是我最大的竞争对手，正是这种竞争唤起我写作的热情，激励我走得更远。——乔纳森·弗兰岑
华莱士那三位一体的非凡本领——百科全书般的知识、高超的数学技能、复杂的辩证思考能力——让他更容易在原本栖身的学术界立足，但他在二十来岁的时候，却选择了阻力最大的道路——文学。 ——扎迪·史密斯
他是天生的作家。于我而言，他的魔力就如同观看一个人穿着西装、头戴大耳机走进球馆，站在罚球线前连续投进五十个球。 ——大卫·利普斯基（作家，电影《旅行终点》中《滚石》记者的原型）
读大卫·福斯特·华莱士就像听最棒的摇滚乐队演出。——大卫·阿姆斯丹
华莱士精通他所写的每一个领域。他有庞大的词汇量。他精力充沛，有真知灼见。他还有超酷的态度。——《纽约时代书评》

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America, and touches on substance addiction recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising, popular entertainment, film theory, Quebec separatism, and tennis, among other topics.
The novel includes 388 numbered endnotes (some of which have footnotes of their own) that explain or expand on points in the story. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Wallace characterized them as a method of disrupting the linearity of the text while maintaining some sense of narrative cohesion.[1]
The novel was included by Time magazine in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.[2]
As of 2006 (ten years after its publication), 150,000 copies of Infinite Jest had been sold and the book has continued to sell steadily.[3]
Wallace was 33 when the novel was published.

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.

An exuberantly acclaimed collection -- twenty-two stories that combine hilarity and an escalating disquiet as they expand our ideas of the pleasures fiction can afford.

In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest .

In the stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.

两条正值青春年少的鱼儿，肩并肩游着，遇到一条年长的鱼。
年长的鱼向他们点头打招呼，“早安啊，孩子们。水怎么样？”
这两条年轻的鱼继续往前游，其中一条终于忍不住，问道：“水到底是个什么东西？”
这是美国作家大卫•福斯特•华莱士2005年在肯扬学院毕业典礼上的演讲，从生活中最显而易见的平常之事入手，讨论如何摆脱生命中的重复单调，获得内心自由，保持意识的清醒鲜活。华莱士提醒我们，生命中最简单的事往往又是最困难的，比如 “在成人生活中，日复一日地保持清自觉与警醒,困难得不可想象。”
这场演讲当时默默无闻，之后却突然逆袭，演讲录音通过邮件和博客在朋友圈不断流转，引发广泛共鸣，后又有工作室根据录音制作了短视频，在Youtube上一个星期的点击量超过400万次。出书之后受到更大的关注，被《时代杂志》评为“对知识分子最后的演讲”，并与乔布斯的演讲一起入选“美国最具影响力的十大毕业演讲”。
遗憾的是，这位天才的作家却在3年后因严重的抑郁症自杀，这也让演讲更加震撼：生活不会总是一帆风顺，我们要学会提醒自己走出思维定势的泥沼；给你身边的人多点空间——因为你不知道他们正面对怎样的困苦。

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style. The volume includes among others interviews with Laura Miller, Dave Eggers, and the student magazine of Wallace's own alma mater, Amherst.

An instant classic of American sportswriting—the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, “the best mind of his generation” (A. O. Scott) and “the best tennis-writer of all time” (New York Times)
Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty disection of Tracy Austin's memoir; considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his own career as a "near-great" junior player.
Whiting Award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.

Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one kind of infinity. Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics.

【编辑推荐】
★ 美国天才作家大卫·福斯特·华莱士罕见历史作品；
★ 睿智、深刻，充满娱乐性和可读性的无穷大概念史；
★ 一段挑战抽象之抽象，挑战想象力极限的旅程。
【内容简介】
要穿过一条街道，必须先穿过街道的二分之一；要穿过街道的二分之一，必须先穿过它的四分之一，要穿过四分之一，必须……
自从芝诺提出二分悖论以来，“如何穿过一条街道”这个简单的问题竟然困扰了人类长达两千多年，薅秃了多少最顶尖的头脑，成为最抽象、最晦涩的数学概念。华莱士用自己标志性的奇思妙想、辛辣独特（絮絮叨叨）的文风，以及比正文还长的脚注，展现了这一段在街道中央徘徊的历史。他的文字如同无穷大这一数学概念一样，充满智慧。
【本书获誉】
“现代人驯服无穷大的迷人历史。”
——《纽约时报书评周刊》
“（华莱士）给他的书带来了令人耳目一新的对话风格，以及令人惊讶的数学权威性……一本成功的书。”
——美国学者约翰·艾伦·保罗
“令人震惊的可读性……对于枯燥的数学教科书和强调发现者而非发现本身的流行文化数学书籍来说，这都是一剂绝妙的解毒剂。”
——《书单》

★ 入选《时代》周刊评选的1923年以来世界百部最佳英语长篇小说
★ 入选2021年《纽约时报》“125年以来伟大之书” 短名单
★ 原版1079页，创下上市当月加印6次的奇迹
★ 作者凭借此书获麦克阿瑟天才奖
★ 沉迷视频，沉迷游戏，沉迷电子产品，沉迷社交网络，沉迷成功，人生是一场你与自己的无尽战争
★ 中文版100万字，1138页，包含388个尾注，地狱级文本难度，黑洞般吸引力的高智商神作
★ 翻译难度极高。全球售出25种语言版权，至今仅有10种语言译本，中译本是亚洲唯一
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这是一个物质高度发达的年代，人们的娱乐需求不断产生又不断得到满足。一部名为《无尽的玩笑》的神秘电影在地下流传，所有看过它的人都沉迷其中无法自拔，它的致命吸引力将一所网球学校、一家戒瘾康复机构、加拿大分离组织以及美国情报部门都卷入其中，灾难一触即发……
《无尽的玩笑》的出版堪称一个事件，一座无法被超越的高峰。全书100万字，没有章节，没有目录，片段之间被神秘符号隔开。这是一部有着自己的大脑和心脏的小说，大卫·福斯特·华莱士挥洒他天才的语言，巧妙构建挑战读者智商的故事结构，于无限放大的细节中，制造出席卷现实与人物内心的连绵不绝的风暴。书中描写的对各种事物沉迷又陷入无尽孤独的群体病症，指向了这个成瘾时代，也将给这个时代的读者带来思考和慰藉。
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《无尽的玩笑》表明了华莱士是他那一代作家中最具天才的一位，他似乎有能做一切事情的艺术天分。——《纽约时报》
潜入《无尽的玩笑》深处是一次令人振奋、激动人心的经历。书中有如此多的生活与死亡，如此多的狂欢和伤痛，面对绝望时又有如此多的热情，为我们文学的未来欢呼。很少有人会读到如此放肆的有创造力的文体，一场华丽高能的语言冲击。——《每日新闻》
这部小说是如此光彩夺目，您需要戴太阳镜才能读它，它还有心脏和大脑。——《当代小说评论》
华莱士拥有所有在世作家中最有掌控力、最激动人心和最具创造性的修辞技巧。——《自由》作者 乔纳森·弗兰岑
《无尽的玩笑》就像是一艘没有可识别的特征、没有铆钉和螺栓、没有入口、没有方法拆解的宇宙飞船。它光芒耀眼，白璧无瑕。——《什么是什么》作者 戴夫·艾格斯