Don DeLillo
Subtitle: balance at the edge of belief
By: Jesse Kavadlo.
Series: Modern American literature,; v. 40; Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 40.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: DeLillo, Don -- Criticism and interpretation.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Belief and doubt in literature.; Spiritual life in literature.; Subjectivity in literature.
Description: "Don DeLillo 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 faithlessness, 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-165) and index.