Pubblicato il 9 luglio 2012 su Cabaret Bisanzio. Prontamente salutato dai titoli sensazionalistici della stampa come il primo film sull’attuale crisi economica, l’ultima prova di David Cronenberg è in realtà l’ennesimo attestato (dall’impeccabile tempismo, questo sì) alla capacità di DeLillo di leggere e interpretare il presente. Tanto il film quanto il libro del 2003 da […]
Daily Archives: June 11th, 2013
Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Pubblicato il 30 dicembre 2011 su Cabaret Bisanzio. Don DeLillo è un romanziere. Poche le interviste rilasciate, poche le apparizioni pubbliche (la sua timidezza è tanto leggendaria quanto fantomatica), nessun corso di scrittura creativa, nessuna delle attività collaterali tipiche del letterato statunitense. Se prescindiamo da una manciata di articoli e da una mezza dozzina di […]
Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
All of DeLillo’s novels (all the ones I’ve read at least, 8 out of 15 plus three plays) have a closed, geometrical structure, overtly self-conscious. Not incidentally they never have an index. The one exception was White Noise, and with good reason: the deconstructed, wilfully episodic narrative was well served by the loose structure. Point […]
Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
“The logical extension of business is murder”. In an April day of the year 2000, 28-year-old multibillionaire finance whiz Eric Packer gets up from a sleepless night. He watches the day dawn over Manhattan, then crosses the rooms of his triplex (which he paid, as we will learn, $ 104 mln) and summons his stretch […]
Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
In extremis: slow, spare and painful. DeLillo’s first novel since Underworld, preceded in 1999 by Valparaiso, his second stageplay. As if marking the distance from its predecessor, it is very, almost impossibly terse; to the point that I find it difficult to consider it a novel(la), and not because of its brevity. Commentators variously describe […]
Leonard Orr, Don DeLillo’s White Noise
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
My second foray into the Continuum Contemporaries series of Continuum Books (on which more to come): I had already picked up the brilliant and neatly-packed guide to Underworld, written by DeLillo scholar John Duvall. It is obvious that Underworld and White Noise are wildly different novels in terms of scope, complexity and sheer volume, and […]
Matthew Stearns, Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Complete and well-researched analysis of the most important album by arguably the most important and innovative band of their time. The author, musical critic Matthew Stearns, works backwards from the recent official acknowledgment as a true historical document: in 2006 the US Library of Congress added Daydream Nation to the permanent archives of the National […]
Bill Janovitz, Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main St.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
“The single greatest rock’n’roll record of all time, okay?” If you agree with the opening sentence of the book, you don’t need to read this comment. You need to go out (or simply open another Firefox window) and buy the bloody thing. If you don’t, stick around and learn one or two things about music. […]
Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
I Know It’s Only a Case of Delayed Retirement But I Like It Mi trovo in difficoltà a dare un voto. Cosa dovrei giudicare, esattamente? Gli Stones? Sono the greatest rock’n’roll band on earth. Scorsese? Non credo ci sia qualcuno che non lo considera un maestro, a prescindere dal proprio grado di sopportazione nei confronti […]
James Marsh, Man on Wire
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Vincitore nel 2009 del premio Oscar come miglior documentario. Tutto era iniziato nella sala d’attesa di un dentista parigino. Nel 1968 un diciassettenne Philippe Petit nota un’immagine del progetto per il World Trade Center in una rivista e ne rimane stregato. Strappa la pagina, si tiene il mal di denti ed inizia a sognare. Sogna […]
