{"product_id":"ordinary-unhappiness-2","title":"Ordinary Unhappiness","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Unhappiness\u003c\/i\u003e returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrief Interviews with Hideous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvre and places that writing in conversation with a philosophical tradition that includes Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among others. What emerges is a Wallace who not only speaks to our postmodern addictions in the age of mass entertainment and McDonald's but who seeks to address a quiet desperation at the heart of our modern lives. Freud said that the job of the therapeutic process was to turn \"hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness.\" This book makes a case for how Wallace achieved this in his fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jon Baskin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572214792374,"sku":"9781503609310","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781503609310_b6c21c14-0a82-4e51-9f33-142b6326cf18.jpg?v=1727355444","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/ordinary-unhappiness-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}