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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication

by David Foster Wallace

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Amazon rank: #27,065
Price: $11.01
Publisher: Library of America; Special edition (May 10, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1598534807
ISBN-13: 978-1598534801
Weight: 12 ounces

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After reading his Federer essay, I immediately searched for the Nadal/Federer match he referenced and sat in awe, having my own Federer (and Nadal) momentsEssays about tennis: String TheoryThe first is about his childhood tennis experience titled Derivative Sport in Tornado AlleyThe quotes from the book, hilariously bad, sustained me.I kept going, though the essays after that weren't as interestingFour of the five essays here are about what it means to be great or nearly great on a tennis courtThere was too much else going on in his overdeveloped brainAnd Federer, as Wallace emphasizes, did this from within the power game; he did it while handling shots that were moving at hurricane force Hardcover Retail Price: $19.95 $15.16 (Save 24%) 20% off for Members: Get the Club Price $ 12.13 Add to Cart + Add to Wishlist In Stock Online

 

A decade into my affair with tennis, I find myself in Melbourne for another Australian Open, working (very part-time) on a non-traditional tennis video game, and looking back at the arc of my affection for the sport, reading these wonderful essays and writing about them and their impact on me.David Foster Wallace's 2006 piece on the experience of watching Roger Federer play tennis - originally called 'Roger Federer as Religious Experience' and retitled here as 'Federer Both Flesh and Not' - was hugely important in my personal tennis renaissance, in igniting a previous abandoned interest in the sport, and also shaping how I approach the game as a fanThe writing is part exposition, part satire but always beautiful.The five essays include his own experiences as a pro junior player, a review of a biography by a tennis player, the world & the world view of an almost-there also-ran, a profile of Federer & his game, and a report on commercialization at US openI enjoyed the writing as well as the inside info on Federer (who knew this hyper-cool Swiss Mister once had a temper?)I can see how non-tennis players would enjoy it as well2Quickview INFINITE JEST - 20th Anniversary Edition (Special Edition) This deluxe paperback editionfeaturing flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissellcelebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest.A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway

 

Something else about tennis clearly attracted Wallace: the opportunity it gave him to ruminate on excellenceIt is perhaps not far-fetched to imagine Wallaces noticing early on that tennis is a good sport for literary types and purposesIt ends with a bang (a tornado), I'll give it thatFederer himself later remarked, in a question-and-answer forum, that he was astonished at what a comprehensive piece Wallace had produced, despite the fact that Federer had spent only 20 min with him in the ATP officeAt such events (into which my rural excellence was an easement), he encountered conditions less favourable to his gameAnd Wallace, it seems, both won and lost this confrontation with himself, as perhaps we all do, though Wallace both won and lost bigAndre Agassi,{3} and the lesser known Mark Knowles {4} in particular, are subject of notable vitriol

 

In which case to read Infinite Jest is now not so much to go up against Wallace himself; hes just the partner in the dance, the necessary excuse or occasion for our going up against ourselves: thats where the real competition is, where the real winning and losing occurssicno kidding! .more flag Like see review I played with Andre Agassis older brother Phillip and a couple of my friends/enemies on the court became money-making prosThat is to say, the overwhelming majority of people who know who Michael Joyce is today know this because theyve read Wallace, not because they watched and admired Joyces game firsthandWallace was Federer before FedererDemocracy and Commerce at the U.S

 

That is, although the game is French to the corenot one but two of Frances early kings died at the tennis courts, and the Republic was born on one, with the Tennis Court Oaththe French never called it that, tennisRobert Frost notoriously disliked free verse because it was, he felt, like playing tennis with the net down: remove the restrictions and limitations and you remove the possibility of form, of grace, whether its in a game like tennis or an art like poetry, or an art like tennis or a game like poetryAnd no where is this truer than in the statement David Foster Wallace makes on acceptance: "Acceptance is its own verve, and it takes imagination for a player to like wind." Success in tennis as in life, is about overcoming the adversities and bits of misfortune that happen to you throughout a match, much in the same way that preserving through life isThe passage in question is a conversation over ice cream between tennis instructor Gerhardt Schtitt and the multi-handicapped moral center of the novel, Mario Incandenza, where Schtitts remarks to Mario on the aesthetics of tennis function simultaneously as commentary on the aesthetics of the novel itself5 ffa900202a

 

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