'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ...He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' ZADIE SMITH A recognised master of form and a brilliant recorder of human behaviour, David Foster Wallace has been hailed as 'the most significant writer of his generation' (TLS). Each new book confirms and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is no exception. In the stories that make up OBLIVION, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. 'Wallace's talent is such that you can't help wondering: how good can he get?' TIME OUT

大衛•福斯特•華萊士（David Foster Wallace），美國後現代派小說巨匠，與喬納森•弗蘭茨一起並稱當代美國文學“雙璧”。華萊士以過人的洞察力和天纔的文學稟賦，驚人的語言遊戲和龐雜的人物情節，戲謔的文字風格和深沉的哲學思考，為世人描繪齣光怪陸離的生活中那些內心的茫然與孤獨，其文風獨樹一幟，可與後現代派小說前輩約翰•巴斯、托馬斯•品欽相媲美。