“The Joycean Book of America”, Don DeLillo, 1988
Everything belongs, everything adheres, the mutter of obscure witnesses, the photos of illegible documents and odd sad personal debris, things gathered up at a dying―old shoes, pajama tops, letters from Russia. It is all one thing, a ruined city of trivia where people feel real pain. This is the Joycean Book of America, remember―the novel […]
Don DeLillo, Jean-Luc Nancy, the missing community
The Latin mass had an odd glamour—all that mystery and tradition. Religion has not been a major element in my work, and for some years now I think the true American religion has been “the American People.” The term quickly developed an aura of sanctity and inviolability. First used mainly by politicians at nominating conventions […]
‘The Angel Esmeralda’ by Don DeLillo, 2011: review roundup
☛ The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo, New York: Simon & Schuster, November 2011. Cover image retrieved from The New York Observer. Below are accounts of two public events featuring Don DeLillo (which were held during the fall of 2012), as well as a short roundup of 11 reviews of his latest book The Angel […]
Fear and disasters: Don DeLillo on the “communal spirit” in the age of globalization
“It’s almost unbelievable when you think of it, how they live there in all that ice and sand and mountains wilderness. Look at it,” he says. “Huge barren deserts, huge oceans. How do they endure all those terrible things? The floods alone. The earthquakes alone make it crazy to live there. Look at those fault […]
