Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) is a collection of 23 short stories by David Foster Wallace. Several of the stories are entitled "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" and are presented as transcripts of interviews with male subjects. The interviewer's questions are omitted from the transcripts, rendered merely as "Q. " These stories and the rest of the collection are characterized by dark dry humor, alienation, and unconventional sexuality.
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- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) is a collection of 23 short stories by David Foster Wallace. Several of the stories are entitled "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" and are presented as transcripts of interviews with male subjects. The interviewer's questions are omitted from the transcripts, rendered merely as "Q. " These stories and the rest of the collection are characterized by dark dry humor, alienation, and unconventional sexuality. In 1997 Wallace was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by editors of The Paris Review for "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6", which had appeared in the magazine and appears as "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #20" in the collection. Twelve of the "Interviews" were adapted into a stage play (Hideous Men) by Dylan McCullough in 2000, marking the first theatrical adaptation of any of Wallace's works. McCullough directed the premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival in August of 2000. Actor John Krasinski of The Office has adapted and directed a film version on the "Brief Interviews" stories that was released in 2009. Julianne Nicholson plays Sara Quinn, the interviewer unnamed in the stories.
- Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi (tit. originale Brief Interviews with Hideous Men) è una raccolta di 23 racconti scritti nel 1999 da David Foster Wallace. Questi racconti costituiscono un campionario di un'umanità che non nasconde nemmeno sul corpo le proprie aberrazioni. Una galleria cosi completa di esseri laidi e odiosi da insinuare nel lettore il sospetto di vivere in un tempo e in un mondo che non si può redimere: il focomelico Johnny Moncherino che sfrutta la sua menomazione per portarsi a letto le donne, il depresso che costringe al suicidio l'analista (Wallace ci avvertirà altre volte di come potrà andare a finire), fino all'immobilità totale dell'adolescente prima del tuffo nel racconto "Per sempre lassù", vita paralizzata dall'angoscia. Ironici, tragici, buffi, questi racconti confermano la grande capacità del suo autore di portare il lettore in una dimensione visionaria, metafisica ma sempre evocativa del grande malessere dell'uomo postmoderno. Prima di questo volume di racconti Foster Wallace aveva già pubblicato un romanzo La scopa del sistema (1987), un'altra raccolta di racconti brevi "La ragazza dai capelli strani"(1989) e "Infinite Jest" (1996) un romanzo di oltre 1000 pagine che lo ha reso celebre in tutto il mondo. Il libro è stato pubblicato in Italia da Einaudi nel 2000 nella collana Stile Libero, con un'introduzione di Fernanda Pivano.
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- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) is a collection of 23 short stories by David Foster Wallace. Several of the stories are entitled "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" and are presented as transcripts of interviews with male subjects. The interviewer's questions are omitted from the transcripts, rendered merely as "Q. " These stories and the rest of the collection are characterized by dark dry humor, alienation, and unconventional sexuality.
- Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi (tit. originale Brief Interviews with Hideous Men) è una raccolta di 23 racconti scritti nel 1999 da David Foster Wallace. Questi racconti costituiscono un campionario di un'umanità che non nasconde nemmeno sul corpo le proprie aberrazioni.
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