Postirony : the nonfictional literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers What is postirony Foremost it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and unfortunately used to postmodernisms ironic self reflexive metafiction. Authors like David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers chose a different path: Despite the reign of contemporary irony they strive to reach the reader on a level beyond cognitively as well as emotionally they claim to be sincere and true. Focusing largely on nonfiction by said authors Lukas Hoffmann explores the means the texts use to achieve something new namely a new form of sincerity.