Feb
21
“A sense of fraudulence, of falling short of authenticity, is endemic to contemporary man, just as it is endemic to contemporary art. But it is not the only thing that is endemic to him or his art. It can exist alongside generosity, freedom and truth. Was Wallace a genius or a fraud? He cannot but have been both. What made him a great artist was his demonstration of the poverty of this question, and of the deleterious strategies we have depended on to avoid moving beyond it. All our satire, theory and reflexive sophistication have not added up to an exit strategy. There can be a literature beyond exhaustion. The way out is out. Go.”
Jon Baskin on David Foster Wallace
