Why is David Foster Wallace so widely read Why does his fiction and nonfiction continue to raise enthusiasm among an evergrowing variety of readers of all ages and backgrounds not only in the Englishspeaking countries but all over the world while describing all the malcontents dead ends and solipsistic tendencies of contemporary civilisation Presences of the Other counteracts the vision of Wallaces postmodern oeuvre as selfishly selfabsorbed narcissistic or confining and attempts to answer t