Features of the United States of America in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and the Pale King

Raul Săran

doi:10.2478/rjes-2023-0011

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Features of the United States of America in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and the Pale King

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 20 (2023): Issue 1 (December 2023)

By: Raul Săran

Open Access

|Dec 2023

Abstract

From a methodological standpoint, the following paper is based on a comparative analysis of two novels written by David Foster Wallace. With a specific perspective for each novel (the motivations of the character known as Rémy Marathe for the first novel, as well as §19 for the second one), the purpose of the paper is to highlight the main characteristics, flaws, and identity crises of the United States, as depicted by Wallace in both Infinite Jest and The Pale King.

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