David Foster Wallace Fiction and Form Author:David Hering David Foster Wallace is now recognised as one of the most significant and influential contemporary American novelists. In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the evolving formal properties of Wallace's fiction from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive ... more » analysis of Wallace's drafts, Hering outlines in detail the processes through which Wallace's novels were constructed and analyses the related importance of a number of formal contexts (ghostliness, institutionality, reflection) to Wallace's work, finally devoting an entire chapter to the troubled, decade-long construction of The Pale King.« less