![]() ![]() ![]() This chapter argues against such interpretations, through a comparative close reading with Dostoevsky’s novella, tracing shared themes, motifs, and formal traits. Furthermore, most critics have interpreted ‘The Depressed Person’ as expressing a supposedly inevitable failure of language and communication. However, despite these affinities, the connections between their fiction have so far remained under-researched. Dostoevsky is an important example for Wallace that some philosophical problems are best approached through literature in both authors’ works, philosophy and literature are partly overlapping activities. This chapter argues that David Foster Wallace’s ‘The Depressed Person’ (1998/1999) and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864) offer a comparable cultural critique and approach to casting critical-philosophical ideas into fiction. ![]()
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