David Foster Wallace visits Italy (2006)
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- David Foster Wallace visits Capri, Italy, to take part in the Le Conversazioni festival. He discusses what it's like to be in a foreign country, what it means to be a failure, and what literary group he would like to belong to.
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he looks like that one relative you always want to come to your party, but who is obviously nervous and kind of antsy and you can tell doesn't want to be there, but he comes anyway out of respect for those who invited him. the pain is real.
I am a bookseller and he is my favorite writer. I miss his voice of literature so much.
Do you sell books?
He had so much passion and talent for literature, he will not be forgotten easily.
I know DFW had his personal faults, but what an incredible human being. So insightful, funny, and brilliant. But more than anything else, he was just so human. Despite his self doubt and anxiety, he had an amazing ability to connect with audiences and open his heart and mind to strangers. What a loss to the world.
No matter how uncomfortable his piercing mind might be, his heart is always in the right place.
He was accused of stalking and physical abuse by his former partner...
@@broken_disco_ball This was before #believeallwomen, so we don't have to believe it. Then there was #believeonlywomenwhosupportdemocrats, so now we need to know her political leanings.
@@NickMart1985u sound like an imbecile
dont care. why should i dismiss one of the greatest thinkers of our time simply because he did dumb things in his personal life?@@broken_disco_ball
@@NickMart1985 jesse what the fuck are you talking about
This is bloody interesting. And it's so nice to see so many familiar faces in the crowd!
Having these videos of David uploaded now (in 2019) almost tricks your mind into thinking he's still with us...
trout mask replica and david foster wallace - you must be a masochist
Don't Ask What Kind Of Music hot
I absolutely love his honesty, and self awareness. Brilliant man. RIP
watching interviews with him always makes me choke up, he was such a sweetheart
This was great, and the shots of Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith made me smile. It's like all the New Sincerity greats having a happy family reunion.
Don’t forget Jeffrey Eugenides
This was the last time Zadie and Eugenedes saw him alive as well.
and his wife at 0:26 too
Dude I love your channel and all these David foster Wallace videos of late. Probably my favorite TH-camr so keep it up I listen to these to stay sharp every night
Thank you! Comments like yours keep me going. If you have any recommendations or suggestions, I'm definitely always open to hearing them.
God what a gift this video is, thank you for sharing
Happy he was able to experience Italy in his lifetime.
It's crazy to rewatch this after half way through reading the pale king.
i love his little dance moves
Thank you so much for this.
So wonderful to see and listen to DFW here in Italy.
This is the best channel on TH-cam ...Thank you so much for these awesome videos ...I come back here every time i feel low ...so much to cherish
I can't believe that! Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace together same place in Italy, same day.
They were friends.
The group DFW was describing sounds Metamodernist, of which, looking back, he was a founding father.
I translated the subtitles of this video to Brazilian Portuguese (I hope to do it in other videos). I hope it can help this wonderful channel. :)
No one considered insert the subtitles in Portuguese. Then my project of translating other videos to Portuguese died.
And then Italy won the world cup.
He is literally the best in the world.
Such a great, much needed mind gone forever.
Chris Russell during this quarantine I found myself reading Jest for the 3rd time. I learn something knew about David everytime I work through that book
I think he knew that he did his job and it was time to go. His words are enough to explain a lot of what is happening today and what will happen in the future.
He didn't need to elaborate, the thought is already out there for us to think about and try to change the course of the future, i'm pretty sure he knew we were already fucked considering how people are still in that drone state in spite of debates and criticizing everything people still don't focus on what matters.
Yes- some say he was the reincarnation of Buddha. He looks like he could be if he didn't have the glasses.
Big surprise Franzen is smirking
I miss this channel. Please bring us more videos!
This has to be one of my favorite clips on youtube, no doubt. Also Manufacturing Intellect is one of my favorite TH-cam channel. It’s beautiful!
All of this man's decisions are inspiring
He seems like a great guy but his nonverbal communication doesn’t fail to show that he believes he fails all the time and not only when he tries to speak Italian. He has that grin with which he often finishes his words.
Thank you so much for this!!!!!
I swear about 75% of all DFW videos on the internet are on this channel- where do you even source a video like this?
Cheers. Thank you.
You're doing great work
Thank you for making all this effort
I agree. Thanks for taking the time to upload this.
I have always been a fan. But I think I get sucked into his videos lately because I miss having a great teacher in my life.
Bellissimo. Mi sarebbe piaciuto vederlo. Se solo fossi stato a Capri... :(
very funny guy. no one notices how funny this dude was
Such a wonderful human being himself
It's funny how on a interview he said It's was intrigued by how the people thought of infinite jest as ''funny'' when, on his perspective, It was a pretty sad book, well, here can be seen that dichotomy, that dissonance between his foreing lenguage struggles and the laughs on the background.. very somber indeed.
This is the first thing i noticed. I also think people laugh to please DFW and to please themselves for being in front of him
I see Eugenides, Smith, Franzen, what a generation...
I feel like David Foster Wallace and the comedian Mitch Hedberg were soul brothers and this made me wish they had somehow done a collab together one time.
Interesting. As an expat in Northern Europe, I agree with his description.
2005-2008 was an easy era to get very hopeful then very depressed, it feels so relevant because history and culture arent linear but more spirals
Beautiful.
This dude was the real king of the 90's mountain revolution
Nice upload!
David looks like the family member that’s keeping to himself playing his gameboy inside the Sistine Chapel 😌🙏
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Wow. Fascinating. How was this footage obtained? Is the rest available somehow?
I found it on the website that runs the festival Wallace was part of. As far as I know, this is all that there is. I cleaned up the audio and video as much as I could and compiled all of the various clips together into this one video and also subtitled it.
it was obtained via a camera.
Thank you for this. It makes me so glad and sad to see him.
What is the piece of music at the end?
Wow! I believe DFW is Buddha or Christ or Mohammad incarnate. There has never been such a. brilliant man ever to walk this earth. Every word that comes from him is pure genuis, completely original, never before thought or spoken. I have watched this video over 100 times and each time I hear, feel something so new and original and truthful it takes me several days to digest before I rewatch again, and a similar download of cosmic luminosity rushes forth into my cerebral cortex and all through my bodies, astral, etheric and liminally solid body.
Lol
@Mr Heck lighten up.
Amazing 🤩
I wonder what this trip was for because I also see Johnathan Franzen and Zadie Smith there. And I assume a few more writers I’m not educated enough to recognize.
jeffrey eugenides spotting at 2:08
Cute to see Zadie Smith laughing at what a ridiculous nerd DFW is. It's nice, these little moments of writers just being human together, you so rarely get it on camera.
It is, but i've never understood why people (used to) care so much about her books.
@John_Greekthis is why it’s so embarrassing to be a DFW fan. His fan base is overwhelmed by pompous conceited pseudo intellectuals that are misogynistic and full of hate and probably overprivileged. Inliterary had to rip off the cover because I couldn’t handle being associated.
Hes absolutely spot on about football the americans are coming round
Australia knocked out because of a dive in the box... then go on to win... would have been nice to see the rest of the finals... We had one of the best goalies in the world then... I hope David has enjoyed the way that world cup should have played out beyond the key hole but through the door (Good Old Neon) 👍
Haha. We (Australians) remember that penalty with such bitterness. We were robbed! 😂 It blows my mind to think David was watching it.
Thank-fucking-You!
So sad to think that he killed himself after just 2 years... love...
He's more at home in Italy.
I like how he craps on the US saying how football (soccer) will be more popular in the US within a generation, and that Italy has to watch out because America will "cheat and pour all this money into it" as if FIFA isnt an already corrupt organization. It seems like he has a certain disdain for America. Not sure why exactly. I mean, yeah, Europe has this majestic, mystical appeal because of its history and cultures. But that's mainly because of his ignorance about Italy and his growing up in America. Every country, culture, custom has its flaws. Maybe if he actually had some pride in the country he lived, he would've found enough worth to not have killed himself.
When we he sing welcome to the jungle… really dude… really
nice shot of the cigarette, bro. now i know for sure these guys are profound intellectuals.
Create emotion, spirituality, and community. Maybe next time around.
and Italy ended up winning the World Cup that year :D
There used to be a radio interview with him and Bryan Garner (the guy who wrote the dictionary he reviewed) on TH-cam, but it got taken down, and i've been unable to find the audio. Does anyone know if it's still floating around?
Search for the 'DFW audio project' website. I've had some copyright strikes here, but that website has everything
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People laugh at the brutal honesty because they're uncomfortable with the truth.
They're laughing because they relate to what he's saying. Stop being so pretentious
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7:27 is that Zadie Smith?
Yes
this wavy-arm thing DFW keeps doing makes me cringe so hard. 100% something I have done on camera trying to look careless when I'm actually horrified at someone recording me, ending up doing the stupidest, most unelegant movement imaginable. The fact that he did it multiple times makes it even harder to watch, and easier to relate to, sadly. In that respect that's some very rare footage, I don't think I've ever seen videos of DFW just walking around.
As usual his words come from strikingly deep insight drawn from simple observations, and it's really cool to see Zadie Smith with him so much.
the critique of it feels like it's creeping it waaay too hard. each time he immediately full-on chuckles at himself, heartily. humble and real. and almost trying to call out that the filming itself as unnatural or intrusive, even if inevitable biproduct of fame. i understand you were writing to relate, but it just seems more joyful and easygoing than you indict, and with different motives too. unless you're a famous writer about whom i've not yet heard (;
i think you’re projecting heavy your own insecurity
6:50 The man called it.
What did he call?
@@mattcoccopuffsthat america will be way more into football
A great, sensitive mind.👍 But this video was pandering, IMHO.
He seems like a beautiful soul and not at all depressed. I don't understand how psychiatry could have "failed" him so miserably. There was no victory in that failure.
And as he predicted... usa got into soccer and won the women's world cup. It took less than a generation for women
Two years later he would die by his own hand...he seems a bit out of it here. He comes across as traumatized, reminiscent of a Vietnam Veteran suffering from PTSD...RIP
It could be a result of all the electroshock treatments he's had and years of psychotropic drugs. Or it could be because he's just so brilliant he can't contain it.
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He was much better at diagnosing the modern ills of American society and prescient about its future than he was a fiction writer.
I suppose you didn’t care for Infinite Jest?
Sounds like you never read anything he wrote. He didn’t invent those observations btw. It’s been around before he published anything. They are fairly obvious.
Well, at least our womens team lived up to his prediction.
"World Football" lol
His prediction was right. Like most INFJs
He was a freak. He was in his mid-forties here and he never left the USA.
and here you are obsessing over these details of his life. what does that make you, freak?
@@gounch.1186 Who is obsessed? Weirdo.
That girl was creaming in her pants.(auto correct, did you mean "screaming", sure?)
Смешной он в этом видео)
0:50, what are you talking about? Ahahahaha, it takes years, if not decades to learn a natural language.
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Looks like a guru or cult leader
People laugh in a very stupid way
Something more meaningful than ourselves.
RIP. I am an author. So hard to write things no one reads. Then again writing what everyone reads is scary.
obviously a neurosis he cant turn off . this is the pain. he explains too much he is thinking out loud
not sustancious
He's boring to me
Why aren’t you watching a slap-stick comedy then? Go to a circus. Watch a thriller-action movie. Literature is about intellectual stimulation. And he is very entertaining and pleasurable to read. Which you either haven’t or aren’t capable of doing. He is other things but boring is not one of them. It can be too much pyrotechnics if anything.
Ok.
overated
Under spelled.
@@djo-dji6018 How does one spell pedantic? Did I get it right?
@@KingMinosxxvi You spelled 'pedantic' correctly.
He is overrated but it’s not his fault , it’s the majority of his fanbase’s fault. He never claimed to be all these exaggerations and had a very precise and accurate view of himself if you ever bother to see what he thought of his own writing and place in it.