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String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis (edizione 2016)

di David Foster Wallace

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Collects essays about tennis in which the author challenges the sports memoir genre, profiles two of the world's greatest players, and shares his own experiences in his youth as a regionally ranked tennis player.
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Titolo:String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis
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Info:New York, N.Y. : [Library of America], [2016]
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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication di David Foster Wallace

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For tennis players or fans, lots to chew on. For DFW fans, poignant, naturally. For most readers, meh. ( )
  Kalapana | Jan 22, 2024 |
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  jarrettbrown | Jul 4, 2023 |
Primer libro que leo de Foster Wallace, un autor del que siempre he oído hablar bien. Me he quedado fascinado. Qué manera de contar las cosas. Qué manera de escribir. Qué potencia. Esto exige buscar inmediatamente otro libro del mismo autor y darle un repaso, por si acaso el primero que cogimos fue su única obra maestra. Se va a cumplir la profecía de nuestro amigo Mario:

Un minuto de silencio por ese libro ilusionado que era el siguiente en la pila y que se ve reemplazado por uno recién comprado. Otra vez.— Mario (@mario_jsg) 6 de noviembre de 2017



El libro es una unión de cinco ensayos con el tenis como tema común. Desde la infancia/adolescencia del autor como cuasicampeón regional en el medio oeste hasta sus visitas al Open de Canadá y el US Open como periodista acreditado, pasando por la crítica literaria de las memorias deportivas de una campeona de tenis, el autor habla y habla y habla de tenis (y de muchas otras cosas) sin que nunca nos cansemos de escucharle. Es fantástico. Tiene además tanto que decir que es frecuente que meta cincuenta notas al pie por ensayo, en las que hace graciosísimas acotaciones que por algún motivo no considera dignas del texto principal.
Me ha parecido un libro de altísimo nivel que se leía con la misma fruición que una novelita del oeste. Lo mejor de ambos mundos.

Algunas de sus mejores frases son hiperboles humorísticas:

Now a huge roar that makes the whole Stadium’s superstructure wobble signifies that the forces of democracy and human freedom have won the third set.


Otras son frases dichas al comienzo de un ensayo que te hacen saber que el ensayo va a ser bueno:
There are three kinds of valid explanation for Federer’s ascendancy. One kind involves mystery and metaphysics and is, I think, closest to the real truth. The others are more technical and make for better journalism.


Otras frases, soltadas al desgaire, revelan una profunda vida interior:

It’s about 1900h., that time when the sun hasn’t gone down yet but everything seems to be in something else’s shadow.

Sampras, who is not exactly a moonballer, seems almost frail, cerebral, a poet, both wise and sad, tired the way only democracies get tired [...]


Eso y sus descripciones en plan bombardeo de saturación han hecho que caiga rendido ante él. Tengo un nuevo héroe.
The sharply precise divisions and boundaries, together with the fact that—wind and your more exotic-type spins aside—balls can be made to travel in straight lines only, make textbook tennis plane geometry. It is billiards with balls that won’t hold still. It is chess on the run. It is to artillery and airstrikes what football is to infantry and attrition.

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  Remocpi | Apr 22, 2020 |
The collected writings of David Foster Wallace on tennis, a game he was passionately interested in and had played competitively as a teenager. Many transcendent moments. Highly recommended. ( )
  Matt_B | Aug 30, 2016 |
String Theory is a beautiful little hardcover book of five stunning essays on tennis by David Foster Wallace. He was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. His life was a roller coaster of drug and alcohol addiction, depression, suicide attempts, and institutionalization. He died young, at the age of 46, by his own hand, in 2008. I have very rarely read such an intelligent and dynamic writer.

Reading this book was demanding. You cannot read DFW without paying strict attention, because each essay is compact, verbose, stunningly intellectual, and just plain fun all at the same time. Beware the long footnotes, but please read them. They do break up the flow of the essays somewhat but add so much.

The Introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan is informative about tennis itself and about DFW’s participation in high school tennis and love of the sport. He is a writer in his own right, and I think I need to start reading some of his writings too.

The first essay is “Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley” about DFW’s personal experience of playing high school tennis. The second is “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart”, his review of her memoir Beyond Center Court: My Story. The third is one originally called “The String Theory” in Esquire Magazine but is here titled “Tennis Player Michael Joyce’s Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness”. The fourth is “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open”, and the last also has two titles: “Federer both Flesh and Not” and “Federer as Religious Experience”. All are excellent, challenging, bitchy, and fun. I read the last one in the New York Times when it came out in 2006, my first exposure to DFW.

If you’re a tennis fan, I strongly recommend this book. If you don’t particularly care for tennis but love beautiful and articulate writing, I strongly recommend this book. If you can’t stand the idea of reading beautiful writing about sports at all, please find any of David Foster Wallace’s other essays and enjoy the feast. ( )
4 vota karenmarie | Jul 16, 2016 |
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