Oblivion: Stories

A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ... He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as ''modern fiction''. He''s so modern he''s in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him'' ZADIE SMITH

A recognised master of form and a brilliant recorder of human behaviour, David Foster Wallace has been h...