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    Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo (eBook, ePUB)
    This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld to The Silence along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study covers eight novels which mark the development of one of the most philosophical and prestigious novelists writing in English. Death, in its close relation to time, temporality and transience, has been an ongoing subject or motif in Don DeLillo's oeuvre. His later work is shot through with the cultural and socio-psychological symptoms and responses death elicits. His 'reflection on dying' revolves around defensive mechanisms and destruction fantasies, around immortalism and cryonics, covert and overt surrogates, consumerism and media, the mortification of the body. His characters give themselves to mourning, are afflicted with psychosis, depression and the looming of emptiness. Yet writing about death also means facing the ambiguity and failing representability of 'death.' The book considers DeLillo's use of language in which temporality and something like 'death' may become manifest. It deals with the transfiguration of time and death into art, with apocalypse as a central and recurring subject, and, as a kind of antithesis, epiphany. The study eventually proposes some reflections on the meaning of death in an age fully contingent on media and technology and dominated by financial capitalism and consumerism. Despite all the distractions, death remains a sinister presence which has beset the minds not only of DeLillo's protagonists.
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    Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo (eBook, PDF)
    This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld to The Silence along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study covers eight novels which mark the development of one of the most philosophical and prestigious novelists writing in English. Death, in its close relation to time, temporality and transience, has been an ongoing subject or motif in Don DeLillo's oeuvre. His later work is shot through with the cultural and socio-psychological symptoms and responses death elicits. His 'reflection on dying' revolves around defensive mechanisms and destruction fantasies, around immortalism and cryonics, covert and overt surrogates, consumerism and media, the mortification of the body. His characters give themselves to mourning, are afflicted with psychosis, depression and the looming of emptiness. Yet writing about death also means facing the ambiguity and failing representability of 'death.' The book considers DeLillo's use of language in which temporality and something like 'death' may become manifest. It deals with the transfiguration of time and death into art, with apocalypse as a central and recurring subject, and, as a kind of antithesis, epiphany. The study eventually proposes some reflections on the meaning of death in an age fully contingent on media and technology and dominated by financial capitalism and consumerism. Despite all the distractions, death remains a sinister presence which has beset the minds not only of DeLillo's protagonists.
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    Falling Man, Hörbuch, Digital, 518min
    Mit seiner sprachlichen Kunst und seiner packenden Erzählweise gelingt es Don DeLillo in "Falling Man", das scheinbar Unsagbare überzeugend in Worte zu fassen. New York in Asche und Rauch am 11. September. In eindringlichen Bildern zeichnet DeLillo den Ablauf der Ereignisse nach: Von den Tätern zu den Opfern, von Hamburg nach New York. In unvergesslichen Szenen entsteht das Leben einer Familie nach der Katastrophe, die berührende Geschichte einer Liebe ohne Zukunft. Karg und klar ist DeLillos Blick für die geheimen Details des Alltags, die in jedem noch so unscheinbaren Augenblick die Zerbrechlichkeit des Ganzen ahnen lassen. deutsch. Christian Brückner. https://samples.audible.de/bk/xpar/000076/bk_xpar_000076_sample.mp3.
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    Unterwelt
    »DeLillo ist zweifellos einer der Meister des politischen Romans unserer Epoche. Vor allem aber ist er ein begnadeter Erzähler.« Uwe Wittstock, Die Welt.In seinem großen Roman »Unterwelt« zeichnet Don DeLillo ein faszinierendes Panorama der letzten Hälfte dieses Jahrhunderts.»DeLillos Buch ist dick, aber man wünschte, es wäre noch viel dicker. Wenn es eines Beweises bedurfte, dass die Literatur lebt, und dass sie es auch mit dieser Welt aufnehmen kann: Hier ist er. Die Schärfe, mit der er die Realität entziffert, die Natürlichkeit, mit der er montiert und arrangiert, seine Intelligenz und Menschlichkeit, die Musik seiner Sätze, der ganze Reichtum dieses Buches lässt einen die Welt mit neuen Augen sehen.« Der Spiegel
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    Beautiful Chaos (eBook, PDF)
    Explores the way chaos theory is incorporated in the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Don DeLillo, and Michael Crichton.Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also-and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction-through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory.>Gordon E. Slethaug is Chairman, Program in American Studies, at the University of Hong Kong, and author of The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction.
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    Players , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 337min
    In Players, DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: Their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple...and still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. "The wit, elegance, and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions" (The New York Times Book Review). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacques Roy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008786/bk_sans_008786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Risk. Du sollst mich fürchten, Hörbuch, Digital, 742min
    In Schweiß gebadet, die Augen weit aufgerissen, sitzt der junge Mann auf einem Stuhl, auf seinem Schoß eine Bombe mit einem Bewegungsmelder. In allerletzter Sekunde können Lieutenant Alex Delillo und ihr Partner sein Leben retten. Auch Alex spürt bald die eisige Hand der Angst im Nacken: Der Psychopath entführt ihre 17-jährige Tochter - und stellt die Mutter vor eine grausame Entscheidung... deutsch. Monica Bielenstein. https://samples.audible.de/bk/lueb/000332/bk_lueb_000332_sample.mp3.
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    Weißes Rauschen
    »DeLillo ist zweifellos einer der Meister des politischen Romans unserer Epoche. Vor allem aber ist er ein begnadeter Erzähler.« Uwe Wittstock, Die Welt.Jack Gladney ist Professor für Hitler-Studien an einem amerikanischen College. Er und seine fünfte Frau Babette leben gemeinsam mit ihren vier Kindern aus verschiedenen Ehen in einem sympathischen Chaos. Doch als sich in einer nahen Chemiefabrik ein Giftgasunfall ereignet, nimmt ihr ganzes Leben eine jähe Wendung ...
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    The American Mystery
    The American Mystery ab 53.99 € als Taschenbuch: American Literature from Emerson to Delillo. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,
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    The Body Artist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 175min
    In this spare, seductive novel, Don DeLillo inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time - time, love, and human perception. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurie Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000254/bk_sans_000254_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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