5/20/2023 0 Comments Exit ghost roth![]() This process of evaluation mimics both the information processing performed by the IRS computers as well as the novel’s sustained dramatization of information overload and relevant versus irrelevant data. performance,” the David Wallace narrative asks its readers to weigh the value of fictional truth over that of supposed non-fiction. By complicating the distinction between the fictional and the real, and by presenting itself essentially as a “nonfiction memoir,” with all that genre’s attendant blurring of the line between “the personal and public, or rather between private vs. ![]() ![]() At the same time, the “Author Here” sections raise those questions within the larger rubric of The Pale King’s focus on bureaucracy, civic duty, and the Internal Revenue Service’s painful transition from, in Wallace’s words, a bastion of “social justice and civic virtue” to something closer to a “for profit business” run by machines. ![]() This essay examines the fictionalized “autobiograph” sections of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, each one of which begins with the phrase, “Author Here.” These sections raise many of the standard questions about the instability of truth and reality generally associated with metafictional self-reflexive writing. ![]()
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