The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace. Published in 1987, the book centers on the emotionally challenged Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who has issues about whether or not she's real. In Wallace's typically offbeat style, Lenore navigates three separate crises: her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, a neurotic boyfriend, and a suddenly vocal pet cockatiel.
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- The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace. Published in 1987, the book centers on the emotionally challenged Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who has issues about whether or not she's real. In Wallace's typically offbeat style, Lenore navigates three separate crises: her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, a neurotic boyfriend, and a suddenly vocal pet cockatiel. The controlling idea surrounding all of these crises are the use of words and symbols to define a person. To further convey this idea, Wallace uses different formats to convey the story, including the transcripts from television recordings and therapy sessions, as well as an accompanying fictional account written by one of the main characters, Rick Vigorous. One intriguing character in the novel is the manager of the nursing home, David Bloemker. Bloemker repeatedly expresses himself in an overly elaborate expression, only to have to reduce his own locutions to a much simpler form. For example, he tells Lenore that if they find her great-grandmother, (also named Lenore) they will likely also find the other missing residents of the facility. Why? Because, she 'enjoyed a status here -- with the facility administration, the staff, and, through the force of her personality and her evident gifts, especially with the other residents [such that] it would not be improper to posit the location and retrieval of Lenore as near assurance of retrieving the other misplaced parties. " The younger Lenore says that she doesn't understand all of that. Bloemker tries again, "Your great-grandmother was more or less the ringleader around here. " This contrast of baroque with simple speech is employed to comic effect, as well as to advance the more serious contemplation of language at the heart of the plot. Wallace stated that the initial idea for the novel sprang from a remark made by an old girlfriend. According to Wallace, she said "... she would rather be a character in a piece of fiction than a real person. I got to wondering just what the difference was. ” Wallace revealed in an interview that the novel was somewhat autobiographical: “the sensitive tale of a sensitive young WASP who’s just had this midlife crisis that’s moved him from coldly cerebral analytic math to a coldly cerebral take on fiction . . . which also shifted his existential dread from a fear that he was just a 98.6°F calculating machine to a fear that he was nothing but a linguistic construct. ” A recurring concept in The Broom of the System is psychology as relating to words, and many of the theories discussed involve Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas and principles.
- La scopa del sistema è un romanzo scritto da David Foster Wallace.
- 『ヴィトゲンシュタインの箒』（-ほうき）は、デヴィッド・フォスター・ウォレスによって書かれた長編小説。1987年刊。講談社から出版され、宮崎尊によって訳された。原題は「システムの箒」（the broom of the system）。 1999年の日本語訳出版時には帯に「ジョイスのような言葉遊びと、ナボコフのような美しくも偏執的モノローグ、ピンチョンを思わせる多重構造、ヴォネガットのシュールレアリズム」と書かれていた。 Template:ネタバレ
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- La scopa del sistema è un romanzo scritto da David Foster Wallace.
- 『ヴィトゲンシュタインの箒』（-ほうき）は、デヴィッド・フォスター・ウォレスによって書かれた長編小説。1987年刊。講談社から出版され、宮崎尊によって訳された。原題は「システムの箒」（the broom of the system）。 1999年の日本語訳出版時には帯に「ジョイスのような言葉遊びと、ナボコフのような美しくも偏執的モノローグ、ピンチョンを思わせる多重構造、ヴォネガットのシュールレアリズム」と書かれていた。 Template:ネタバレ
- The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace. Published in 1987, the book centers on the emotionally challenged Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who has issues about whether or not she's real. In Wallace's typically offbeat style, Lenore navigates three separate crises: her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, a neurotic boyfriend, and a suddenly vocal pet cockatiel.
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