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Journal Article
David Foster Wallace and Lovelessness
2013
Overview
While there is much to encourage such views, including Wallace's own essays and interviews-indeed, hip irony and gooey sentiment are Wallace's own terms (\"E\" 63, Infinite 694)-insufficient attention has been paid to the lack of emotion structuring his fiction, especially given the ways Wallace's fiction is crucially invested in affectlessness, most memo- rably perhaps in the character of Infinite Jest's Hal Incandenza, whose \"anhedonia\" is described as \"a kind of radical abstracting of everything, a hollowing out of stuff that used to have affective content\" (693). Critics have not sufficiently challenged Wallace's categories, however, and have too often reproduced his own thought patterns.1 They do not quite make clear how it is that the masks become unstuck, how irony can be ironized so that unironic sentiment can find expression without in fact compounding irony so that it goes, as it were, all the way down.
