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Publication date 2012 topics civil service, office politics, fiction publisher. Offering a lengthy meditation on boredom, the pale king is set in a. The pale king is an unfinished novel by david foster wallace, published posthumously on april 15, 2011. David foster wallace february 21, 1962 september 12, 2008 was an american author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a university professor of english and creative writing. An unfinished novel is a ghost, a fixed phantom of an idea the moment the words hit the page. This issue of studies in the novel constitutes the second of a twopart special number devoted to the novels of david foster wallace. The first edition of the novel was published in april 15th 2011, and was written by david foster wallace.
The first edition of the novel was published in february 1st 1996, and was written by david foster wallace. The pale kings narrator is a version of wallace, a fictionalized exirs doppelganger that shares the authors name and much of his biographical history. April 2, 2011 writer david foster wallaces last work, the pale king, will be published this month. The thing that struck me about tpk was that it seemed to just be getting going.
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David foster wallace was born in ithaca, new york, in 1962 and raised in illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. According to the editors note at the beginning of the book there was no synopsis or outline of the novel as a whole and months of work were needed to attempt to put together a novel that approached what may have been foster wallace s intentions. Wallace took his own life, in 2008, and much of the text of the work is understood to be biographical. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the pale king.
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