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Review of "The Pale King"
Wallace's work will be seen as a huge failure, not in the pejorative sense, but in the special sense Faulkner used when he said about American novelists, "I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." Wallace failed beautifully. There is no mystery whatsoever about why he found this novel so hard to finish. The glimpse we get of what he wanted it to be—a vast model of something bland and crushing, inside of which a constellation of individual souls would shine in their luminosity, and the connections holding all of us together in this world would light up, too, like filaments—this was to be a novel on the highest order of accomplishment, and we see that the writer at his strongest would have been strong enough. He wasn't always that strong.
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