Don DeLillo
Balance At The Edge Of Belief
- Editore:
Lang, Peter
- Collana:
- Modern American Literature
- EAN:
9780820463513
- ISBN:
0820463515
- Pagine:
- 170
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo - winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize - is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. While his work can be understood and taught as prescient and postmodern examples of millennial culture, this book argues that DeLillo's recent novels - White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, and The Body Artist - are more concerned with spiritual crisis. Although DeLillo's worlds are rife with rejection of belief and littered with faithfulness, estrangement, and desperation, his novels provide a balancing moral corrective against the conditions they describe. Speaking the vernacular of contemporary America, DeLillo explores the mysteries of what it means to be human.