%0 PDF %T Take a good look at this living corpse: The mechanics of black humor in solipsistic short fiction %A Wallace, Molly A. %8 2005-06-20 %I Tufts Archival Research Center %R http://localhost/files/q237j4206 %X This essay will examine a relationship between solipsism and comedy. Solipsism, with its connotations of isolation and nihilism, is often considered among the bleaker existential dilemmas. The threadand threatof solipsistic desire running rampant through their narratives marks Samuel Beckett and David Foster Wallace's humor as black. This thesis aims to deconstruct each author's juxtaposition of the tragic and the comic in order to appreciate the darkly humorous attitude saturating Beckett's Nouvelles and Wallace's Brief Interviews. %[ 2022-10-07 %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution