. "Ideas from such writers as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, S??ren Kierkegaard, Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of modern novelists such as Chuck Palahniuk, Crispin Glover, Andrew Hussie, David Foster Wallace, and Charles Bukowski, and one often finds in their works a delicate balance between dis" . . . . . . . . . .