The Contemporary "Urban Disease" in David Foster Wallace's Works
The fast growth of urbanization provided people with the convenience of modern lifestyle as well as newly-emerged crises and problems,which is fully manifested in David Foster Wallace's urban fictions.Wallace's cutting-edge perspective of urban fiction is evident in three aspects:the body metaphor in city space,distorted collective values,and textual im-itation of urban mindset.His observation of contemporary urban life discloses the pervasive physical and psychological problems of the masses,including entertainment addiction,high pressure at work,and information overload,which also indicates moral and ethical crises like anti-intellectualism and utilitarianism.Meanwhile,Wallace's creative ideas and innovative techniques in writing"urban disease"represent the new development of urban fiction in the new era.
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