2004

OBLIVION
By David Foster Wallace
329 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $25.95.

BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Life Distilled From Details, Infinite and Infinitesimal
By MICHIKO KAKUTANIJUNE 1, 2004
BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Life Distilled From Details, Infinite and Infinitesimal - The New York Times

Mr. Wallace's previous work shows that he possesses a heightened gift for what the musician Robert Plant once called the ''deep and meaningless.'' But in these pages it more often feels like the shallow and self-conscious.