CAPPI Williamson says: "in the this week's issue of the New Yorker, Jonathan Franzen travels to the remote island, which probably was the setting for Robinson Crusoe, where he was thinking of his friend, the late David Foster Wallace, and reflects on the importance of solitude."
At the end of last fall, after his novel [freedom] non-stop for four months promotion, decided take Franzen, even of the vertebrae and strand on the remote control, in the main island. Before embarking on his journey, his friend Karen visited foster Wallace's widow, who him to dispel that her late husband's ashes on the island are some, Franzen. Franzen writes that the flight of had soon begun its current state after foster Wallace's death. "At this time I had a decision not to deal with that abominable suicide of someone who I had so much but have loved refuge in anger and work." Now that the work was done, but it was more difficult to ignore the fact that well, an interpretation of his suicide, David boredom and died in despair about his future novels. "Foster Wallace had loved writing fiction," and he has very explicitly, in our many discussions of the purpose of novels, his belief that fiction is a solution, the best solution to the problem of existential loneliness, "Franzen writes." But his hope faded for fiction, after years of struggling with the new novel. Although suicide was painful to look at, "There was present a kind of..., to himself." Franzen compares foster Wallace, Crusoe and concludes that "Robinson is able survive his loneliness, because he is happy;" He makes peace with his condition because it is normal and his island is concrete. David, who was exceptional, and the island was virtual, finally had nothing on but their own interesting even to survive, and the problems in the manufacture of a virtual world the problem resembles himself with us on a cyber world project: there is no end of virtual spaces in which to stimulation search, but their very infinity, the eternal stimulation without satisfaction, is einsperrend. "Franzen since write protection of the loneliness and despair that can come with loneliness. He writes of a camping trip, he took, when he was a teen ager, in which he wrote in a journal everyday and acquired this "some reached halfway sure sense of my own identity, a sense of solitude by first-person words on a page." Selkirk Island (known by the local based on the older name, island or "Next station") found "when I thought about writing voice religiously, in an 'I', but I that I was even aware." Apparently in the last 35 years, I would come so narrativizing me, to experience my life as a story, I could now be used magazines only to solving and self-investigation. Even with 15 years... "I had not written in my despair, but only after I was sure about it." "Robinson Crusoe" surrounded, begins Franzen, what exactly to look at, is a novel. We now understand a novel to "an Association of a writer's experience to a guards dream." For Daniel Defoe-and his Crusoe--"he gave us the first realistic portrait of radically isolated individual, and then, he showed driven as if by romantic truth, how sick and crazy radical individualism is really us." Franzen focuses Crusoe in the Crusoe on the part of Robinson, since a human presence on the beach discovered fifteen years alone and will defend literally of "the fear of man." crazy made no matter how carefully we write us, Franzen "all it takes is endless a footprint of a real person to us interesting dangers of living" "Relations to remember."
Figure: ZOHAR LAZAR "Robinson Crusoe," David Foster Wallace and the island of solitude
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