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David Cronenberg, Cosmopolis

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 […]

Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda

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

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

“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

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

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 […]