What "Lynchian" Means and Why It's ImportantĪn academic definition of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter." But like postmodern or pornographic, Lynchian is one of those Porter Stewart-type words that's ultimately definable only ostensively-i.e., we know it when we see it. (There were some formatting problems when I tried to copy and paste this essay from the book, so I fixed them and reposted it, hence the confusion above, sorry) If you don't feel like reading something this long, I'd still suggest reading the last section about the way Lynch treats the subject of evil, because I think that's the part that gets to the heart of why Lynch is a great artist.
It's too bad Wallace isn't still alive I'd love to hear his thoughts on the third season of Twin Peaks. The essay is very long so I cut out the less important parts (mostly the parts that talk about his experiences on the set of Lost Highway). The original version of this essay was published in Entertainment Weekly in 1995 after Wallace visited the set of Lost Highway, but I'm quoting from an extended version of the essay which was published in the essay collection "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." I thought this essay was good enough that I should post it here so people don't have to buy the collection to read it. The writer David Foster Wallace was a huge David Lynch fan, and he wrote an essay called "David Lynch Keeps His Head" which is maybe the most insightful piece of commentary on Lynch that I've read.
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