"The lingua franca of the inward bound": plaisirs solipsistes sous l'emprise de la langue chez David Foster Wallace.

This paper aims at showing how in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, language acts as a psychotrope which exposes the flaws of a disenchanted world whose decay cannot be prevented. These flaws are also those of an utterly isolated subject: a mere cog in a world-machine no longer able to hold the promise of community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]