An outstanding master of the form, David Foster Wallace was recognized during his lifetime as the most significant writer of his generation, and each new book only confirmed this status. Oblivion is Wallace's latest collection of stories, his most complex, most provocative and unusual. Here, a daydreaming student does not notice how the teacher at the blackboard begins to go crazy, employees of a prestigious magazine are trying to write a decent article about a fashionable artist who creates sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way, and a husband is trying very politely to explain to his wife that she may be suffering from hallucinations. Against the backdrop of these strange and often awkward situations, David Foster Wallace creates entire worlds worthy of multi-page novels, at once surreal and painfully real.