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Titolo: Uno nuovo e Don Delillo

Ho da poco scoperto questo ng,e vorrei sapere se qualcuno di voi č un 
appassionato lettore di Delillo come me.Cerco informazioni su di un suo 
libro che purtroppo non sono mai riuscito a recuperare:MAO SECONDO.
Grazie a chiunque mi puņ aiutare.
Ciao.                               

E'la prima volta che visito questo sito.Vorrei sapere se qualcuno di voi 
condivide la mia passione per Don Delillo.

Ciao.

Io di Don Delillo ho i seguenti libri:
"I nomi","Cane che corre", "Giocatori","Rumore bianco","Libra",editi da 
Tullio Pironti editore.Poi ho "Great Jones Street" il Saggiatore edizioni 
ed infine "UnderWord"della Einaudi.
Se mi leggi ancora,vorrei solo dirti quanto è difficile trovare anche 
solo chi ha letto un libro di Delillo,e trovare qualcuno a cui piace mi 
ha fatto veramente piacere.
Ciao.

 Se mi leggi ancora,vorrei solo dirti quanto è difficile trovare anche
perche'? nel frattempo e' morto? o questo msg si autodistruggera'  tra
cinque secondi?

Se mi leggi ancora,vorrei solo dirti quanto è difficile trovare anche
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 Ciao.

Piccolo anedotto : mentre stavo leggendo Underworld, avevo lanciato anch'io
un invito al confronto ad altri estimatori di Delillo.
Questo perche' quel libro, come poi Rumore Bianco, mi era si' piaciuto, ma mi
lasciava anche tanto perplesso...
Ho ricevuto qualche mail da parte di persone che stavano leggendo Underworld
e tutti mi scrivevano che una volta che l'avessero terminato mi avrebbero
espresso le loro opinioni...
Poi il silenzio assoluto.
:-)
Danilo
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libro che purtroppo non sono mai riuscito a recuperare:MAO SECONDO.
Eccoti qua un Delillo real fan!
Mi piace cosi' assai che me lo centellino: quel libro che tu non trovi
io l'ho appena iniziato (lo finiro' in Primavera credo).
Me lo ha recuperato da qualche Remainder la libreria dove mi
servo piu' spesso: ed. Leonardo.
Tra i suoi libri ho gia' letto "Cane che corre" e quel
capolavoro assoluto che e' "Rumore Bianco".
Nel frattempo ho iniziato "Underworld", "Giocatori" e, come
detto, "Mao II".
Sono bravo e vi faccio a tutti un regalino: una breve pagina
html con citazioni di Delillo sulla scrittura (salvatelo in un
file e poi leggetelo con Netscape o IE o quel che volete:
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<title>DeLillo on Writing</title>
<h1>Don DeLillo on Writing</h1>
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When it comes to writers being obsessed, I have one notion.  Obsession 
as a state seems so close to the natural condition of a novelist at work 
on a book, that there may be nothing else to say about it.<br>
<right>--DeLillo, from the 1979 interview with Tom LeClair.</right>
<hr>
DeLillo often comments on the act of writing and the state of the novel.  
This page gathers some of these remarks into one place.
<hr>
My own personal preference is for fiction that is steeped in history, 
that takes account of ways in which our perceptions are being changed by 
events around us.  Global events that may alter how we live in the 
smallest ways.
<right>--DeLillo in an article by Philip Marchand in 1991</right>
<hr>
I write to find out how much I know.  The act of writing for me is a 
concentrated form of thought.  If I don't enter that particular level of 
concentration, the chances are that certain ideas never reach any level 
of fruition.
<right>--DeLillo in an article by William Leith in 1991</right>
<hr>
A portion of a letter from DeLillo appears in the April 1996 issue of 
<i>Harper's</i>, in Jonathan Franzen's article "Perchance to Dream."  The 
article deals with the role of authors, readers and novels in today's 
America.  I quote the DeLillo portion in full:<p>
<blockquote>
The novel is whatever novelists are doing at a given time.  If we're not 
doing the big social novel fifteen years from now, it'll probably mean 
our sensibilities have changed in ways that make such work less 
compelling to us--we won't stop because the market dried up.  The writer 
leads, he doesn't follow.  The dynamic lives in the writer's mind, not in 
the size of the audience.  And if the social novel lives, but only 
barely, surviving in the cracks and ruts of the culture, maybe it will be 
taken more seriously, as an endangered spectacle.  A reduced context but 
a more intense one.<p>
Writing is a form of personal freedom.  It frees us from the mass 
identity we see in the making all around us.  In the end, writers will 
write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save 
themselves, to survive as individuals.<p>
And in a P.S he adds:<br>
If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean 
that the thing we're talking about when we use the word 'identity' has 
reached an end.
</blockquote>
<hr>
Here's a paragraph from <a href=maoii.html>Mao II</a>--it's Bill Gray 
speaking:<p>
<blockquote>
Do you know why I believe in the novel?  It's a democratic shout.  
Anybody can write a great novel, one great novel, almost any amateur off 
the street.  I believe this, George.  Some nameless drudge, some 
desperado with barely a nurtured dream can sit down and find his voice 
and luck out and do it.  Something so angelic  it makes your jaw hang 
open.  The spray of talent, the spray of ideas.  One thing unlike 
another, one voice unlike the next.  Ambiguities, contradictions, 
whispers, hints.  And this is what you want to destroy.<br>
(p. 159)
</blockquote>
<hr>
Some excerpts from the 1993 Paris Review interview:<br>
<blockquote>
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.  I don't know what I think 
about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write 
about them.<p>
I work in the morning at a manual typewriter.  I do about four hours and 
then go running.  This helps me shake off one world and enter another.  
Trees, birds, drizzle--it's a nice kind of interlude.  Then I work again, 
later afternoon, for two or three hours.<p>
Q:  Do your typed drafts just pile up and sit around?<p>
That's right.  I want those pages nearby because there's always a chance 
I'll have to refer to something that's scrawled at the bottom of a sheet 
of paper somewhere.  Discarded pages mark the physical dimensions of a 
writer's labor--you know, how many shots it took to get a certain 
paragraph right.  Or the awesome accumulation, the gross tonnage, of 
first draft pages.  The first draft of <b>Libra</b> sits in ten 
manuscript boxes.  I like knowing it's in the house.  I feel connected to 
it.  It's the complete book, the full experience containable on paper.  
I find I'm more ready to discard pages than I used to be.  I used to look 
for things to keep.  I used to find ways to save a paragraph of sentence, 
maybe by relocating it.  Now I look for ways to discard things.  If I 
discard a sentence I like, it's almose as satisfying as keeping a 
sentence I like.  I don't think I've become ruthless or perverse--just a 
bit more willing to believe that nature will restore itself.  The 
instinct to discard is finally a kind of faith.  It tells me there's a 
better way to do this page even though the evidence is not accessible at 
the present time.<p>
Q:  How do you begin?  What are the raw materials of a story?<p>
I think the scene comes first, an idea of a character in a place.  It's 
visual, it's Technicolor--something I see in a vague way.  Then sentence 
by sentence into the breach.  No outlines--maybe a short list of items, 
chronological, that may represent the next twenty pages.  But the basic 
work is built around the sentence.  This is what I mean when I call 
myself a writer.  I construct sentences.  There's a rhythm I hear that 
drives me through a sentence.  And the words typed on the white page have 
a sculptural quality.  They form odd correspondences.  They match up not 
just through meaning but through sound and look.  The rhythm of a 
sentence will accommodate a certain number of syllables.  One syllable 
too many, I look for another word.  There's always another word that 
means nearly the same thing, and if it doesn't then I'll consider 
altering the meaning of a sentence to keep the rhythm, the syllable 
beat.  I'm completely willing to let language press meaning upon me.  
Watching the way in which words match up, keeping the balance in a 
sentence--these are sensuous pleasures.  I might want <i>very</i> and 
<i>only</i> in the same sentence, spaced in a particular way, exactly so 
far apart.  I might want <i>rapture</i> matched with <i>danger</i>--I 
like to match word endings.  I type rather than write longhand because I 
like the way words and letters look when they come off the hammers onto 
the page--finished, printed, beautifully formed.<p>
Q:  Do you care about paragraphs?<p>
When I was working on <b>The Names</b> I devised a new method--new to me, 
anyway.  When I finished a paragraph, even a three-line paragraph, I 
automatically went to a fresh page to start the new paragraph.  No 
crowded pages.  This enabled me to see a given set of sentences more 
clearly.  It made rewriting easier and more effective.  The white space on 
the page helped me concentrate more deeply on what I'd written.
</blockquote>
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 Poi il silenzio assoluto.
Si vede che non l'hanno terminato.
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Rientro da un periodo di astinenza dal NG e mentre rileggo un po' di messaggi
arretrati, chi ti ritrovo in un thread su Delillo ?
Il vecchio Brigante !! :-)
Come va, bestiaccia ? E' un po' che non litighiamo piů... ;-)
Ti informo che nel frattempo ho letto "Rumore bianco", mi č piaciuto molto e di
conseguenza mi son dato da fare anche per recuperare un paio di titoli nella
defunta Pironti.
Ho scoperto che alla Libreria La Bussola di Torino
(
http://www.labussolalibri.it
) avevano qualche copia sia di "Libra" che de "I
nomi", e me li sono accaparrati (ma non ancora letti).
A presto.
Jimi
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arretrati, chi ti ritrovo in un thread su Delillo ?
welcome back!!!^_________^
Lisa
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Poi il silenzio assoluto.
probabilmente, non l'hanno ancora finito....^__^
Lisa\che ha cominciato Rumore Bianco
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