Our lives, our half-century.
Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artis[...]
Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo starts from a simple premise: that the events of the 11th of September 2001 must have had a major effect on two New York residents, and two of the seminal authors of American letters, Pynchon and DeLillo. By examining implicit [...]
From one of the greatest writers of our time, the first ever collection of brilliant short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; chronicling--and foretelling--three decades of American life. Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white collar prison, and outer space, these nine stories are a m[...]
First published in 1985, White Noise won the National Book Award. It is now regarded as a classic of postmodern literature. Jack Gladney is a pioneering professor in the field of Hitler Studies at the bucolic Midwestern College-on-the-Hill. Married five times, he has a brood of children and stepchil[...]
This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America -- and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often[...]
In The Angel Esmeralda, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wide range of human experience in contemporary America -- and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are exposed to their own deep, often unconscious, longings: one man exploits the [...]
From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling and foretelling three decades of American life
Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing intr[...]
Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this "small masterpiece of short fiction" ("USA Today") is a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice. In "Creation," a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can't get off the island--f[...]
It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from [...]
In a collection of profiles and conversations from 1982 to 2001, renowned novelist Don DeLillo, the author of White Noise and Libra, shares his thoughts on the distinction between historical fact and the creative imagination, his work habits, our media-saturated culture, baseball, Lee Harvey Oswald,[...]
Over the past forty years, from Americana to Point Omega, Don DeLillo has written some of America's most important novels. Although DeLillo scholarship has dealt extensively with critical theory, through themes such as systems, technology, consumerism, and terrorism, none has addressed the relation [...]
Henry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half- century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Don DeLillo is the author of short stories, screenplays, and fifteen novel[...]
Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo starts from a simple premise: that the events of the 11th of September 2001 must have had a major effect on two New York residents, and two of the seminal authors of American letters, Pynchon and DeLillo. By examining implicit [...]
It haunts us; it stalks us; it shapes us. It creeps into our dreams and, if we allow it, can plague our ponderings of the future. The same 'monsters' that lived under our childhood beds can reappear, alive and toothsome, in our adult lives. And perhaps most frightening of all: without reason or apol[...]
Although world-famous for his paintings and sculptures, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was also a photographer, and his practice of photographing interiors, the sea and still lifes, as well as his paintings and sculptures, spanned the duration of his 60-year career. This massive two-volume catalogue gathers[...]
Lesen macht Spaß - und das umso mehr mit Lektüren, die Ihre Schüler/innen auch allein zu Hause bewältigen können. Mit den Literaturpaketen ist das problemlos möglich. Diese spannenden und kontroversen Lesehefte können das Fundament einer Klassenbibliothek bilden. Die ungekürzten Originaltex[...]
English summary: The works of Don DeLillo's give a seismographic account of the cultural political situation and offer complex insights into American culture. Julia Apitzsch examines the thematic and aesthetic function of the visual representation of history and cultural reality in DeLillo's novels.[...]
«Jeg gjentar: Les den!» Tor Edvin Dahl, AftenpostenJack Gladney foreleser i Hitler-studier ved et lite college i Midtvesten. Han lengter etter en rolig, udramatisk tilværelse, og finner trøst hos sin elskede kone Babette og deres barn. Men så skjer det: En svart sky av dødbringende gass, et re[...]
Falling Man är den store amerikanske författarens verk om det stora amerikanska traumat. Romanen börjar den 11 september 2001. Keith Neudecker står på en gata i New York, täckt av smuts, glassplitter och blod, med någon annans portfölj i handen. Nu söker han upp sin före detta fru och sin [...]
År 1951 spelas en basebollmatch i New York som skulle bli legendarisk. På hedersläktaren sitter Frank Sinatra och FBI-chefen J. Edgar Hoover. Under matchens gång får han besked om att ryssarna genomfört sin första atombombsprängning.
Det fantastiska sista slaget i matchen skic[...]
En fantastisk, surrealistisk utflykt i den moderna vetenskapens hjärna. Så skrev New Yorker när Don DeLillos Ratners stjärna publicerades 1976.
Ett matematikgeni, en fjortonårig pojke från Bronx, ställs inför uppgiften att dechiffrera ett kodat meddelande från yttre rymden. F�[...]
Don DeLillo är mest känd för flödande, perspektivrika romaner om hur populärkulturen invaderar vår vardag och hur en segerrik teknologi dehumaniserar oss, romaner som Ratners stjärna, Mao II och Under jord. På senare år har han dock skrivit några romaner som i sin reduktion och förtätnin[...]