September 13 just past David Foster Wallace was found by his wife hanging from a rope in his home in Claremont, California, cold, trembling and rocking, how he had been to Throughout his literary life, moving with ease between reportage, essays, novels and stories, clear synthesis of pop writer (not to be confused with superficial) of our time, who held a real job dissection of contemporary culture in his novel Infinite Jest published in 1.996, and that led to its ultimate consequences, almost absurd, in this world that is becoming increasingly important as a large supermarket, everything is a commodity, beliefs, ideologies, cultural movements and why not say the same literary, of which he, despite becoming a best seller, tries in some way exempt. 
But more than that, more than his books, this author-like rock of the 90's, we once again about the abyss that we often ignore and subtlety which once had approached us and writers such as Alejandra Pizarnik or Rock stars as Wendy Orlean Williams: suicide as a form of protest to a world that is not compatible with our ideals or simply a pathetic act of cowardice in the face a reality that was not what we imagined and that really is big monster that our miserable intellectual forces, which secretly we hide in quiet and compelling reading evenings or best writing. 
Currently there are a number of connection points to which man should be tied every day, not because he is scheduled to be so, but as mere conditions of existence in society, points when he lost or weak bank into individual to a margin which is uncomfortable, being a prisoner of unrest that will eventually deepening, there are those who are immersed in the addiction, until it leads them to a point of no return, whose basic characteristic is that they self-destruct allows refrain from reality that they are unable to cope, others seek refuge on an intellectual level that somehow allows them to ignore this loss of connection and the last are those who simply open the escape hatch and jump out, David Wallace in some ways, was a synthesis of three great writer who portrayed all that internal unrest of the empty product contemporary, similarly suffered 20 years of depression, dependent on antidepressants, whose side effects came to be unbearable and finally reached a point where, as noted by his father, James Donald Wallace, tried everything. Simply could not resist more . 
say that this is the exclusive property of intellectuals, actors, rock stars would hide a reality that they face every day countless people who do not write or compose or read, but who can not escape the vacuum and simply seen from a window at a world marred, though they dipped, they do not compete and go quietly denying themselves, ceasing to be even that number that were once within this increasingly uniform society that forgets that not all entities that form have the capacity to assimilate it as such, are being left behind in dirty bars in lepers alleys or in front of a computer cold, unable to create individual hotspots, to which often opt to submit his resignation letter, unable to overcome the ever-growing collective loneliness today, in some ways this is true ...
Infinite Jest 
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