"„Un Beckett al epocii Facebook!“ The Guardian
Este duminica meciului de Super Bowl, în 2022. O profesoară de fizică pensionară, soțul ei și fostul student obsedat de Albert Einstein așteaptă încă un cuplu pentru a urmări împreună meciul la televizor. Perechea întârziată are parte de o aterizare forțată la sosirea de la Paris, iar întâlnirea cu prietenii lor se transformă întro piesă beckettiană în mijlocul unei „tăceri“ depline și neanunțate a tehnologiei. În acest roman apocaliptic încheiat de autor în ajunul izbucnirii pandemiei COVID19, ecranele se sting, avioanele se prăbușesc și nu ne rămâne decât să ne întrebăm ce anume ne face umani, în mijlocul tăcerii.
„Acesta este romanul înțeles ca artă performativă, ca piesă expresionistă. Să citești Tăcerea este ca și cum ai urmări Melancholia lui Lars von Trier sau ai asculta o compoziție de Philip Glass: senzația este de înstrăinare.“ Anne Enright
„Don DeLillo a scris despre America secolului XX cu atâta acuitate și înțelegere, încât a devenit o stea de netăgăduit pe firmamentul nostru. Tăcerea este un mic roman extrem de puternic.“ Los Angeles Times
„În această meditație ironică și șfichiuitoare asupra pierderii colective, o tăietură ne separă brusc de toate lucrurile pe care am ajuns să ne bazăm.“ Rachel Kushner
Don DeLillo (n. 1936) este considerat unul dintre cei mai mari prozatori americani în viață. Este autorul a cincisprezece romane, printre care Omul căzător, Libra, Underworld, Cosmopolis, Punctul Omega, Arta corpului. Dea lungul carierei, i sau decernat numeroase premii, printre care prestigioasele PEN/Faulkner Award, PEN/Saul Bellow Award, National Book Award și Premiul Academiei Americane de Arte și Litere. În colecția Anansi. Contemporan a mai apărut romanul Zgomotul alb."
"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."
"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris.
In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial away. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.
What follows is a dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human. Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world. Never have Don DeLillo’s prescience, imagination and language been more illuminating and essential."
"New York im Jahr 2022: Auf der East Side von Manhattan wollen sich fünf Menschen gemeinsam das Finale der American Football-League im Fernsehen ansehen. Eine emeritierte Physikprofessorin, ihr Mann und ihr früherer Student warten auf die Ankunft eines befreundeten Paares, das gerade auf dem Rückflug von Paris ist. Die Gespräche drehen sich um Einsteins Relativitätstheorie, ein Überwachungsteleskop im nördlichen Chile, eine besondere Bourbon Marke. Und dann passiert etwas Seltsames - auf einmal brechen alle digitalen Verbindungen ab. Sämtliche Bildschirme werden tiefschwarz. Die Freunde treffen ein, ihr Flug war dramatisch. Verwunderung, Erschütterung, Mutmaßungen. Die fünf versuchen sich einen Reim auf das rätselhafte, beängstigende Geschehen zu machen."
"Geschichten, geschrieben zwischen 1979 und 2011, Chronik und Prophezeiung: Die Karibik, Griechenland, Manhattan, ein Gefängnis für Wirtschaftsdelikte und das Weltall sind die Schauplätze. Unsere paranoide Gegenwart durch das Brennglas eines Visionärs.
Es gibt keinen Dichter des US amerikanischen Sprachraums, der mit solcher Lakonie so viel Spannung und Geheimnis aufbauen kann. Beim Hören dieser Geschichten verändert sich die literarische Erdoberfläche, sie bekommt eine vierte, auratische Dimension."
"Ein tief verstörendes, brillantes Werk über Verlust und Verschwinden
Irgendwo 'südlich von Nirgendwo' lebt Richard Elster in einem einsam gelegenen Haus und denkt über Raum und Zeit nach. Zwei Jahre lang hatte er der amerikanischen Regierung als geheimer Berater für den Irakkrieg gedient und sich dann in die Wüste zurückgezogen. Dort besucht ihn ein junger Filmemacher, der ihn für eine Dokumentation gewinnen möchte.
Auch Elsters Tochter Jessie kommt aus New York zu Besuch. Als sie plötzlich spurlos verschwindet, nimmt die Geschichte einen verhängnisvollen Lauf."
"Moll Robbins is a journalist in a rut. But she gets wind of a very exciting story: it concerns a small piece of celluloid, a pornographic film purportedly shot in a bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall – with Hitler as its star. One person claims to have access to this unique piece of Naziana; inevitably, more than one want it. Unfortunately for Moll, in the black-market world of erotica, the currency is blackmail, torture and corruption; and no price is too high.
As the paranoia builds and the combatants lose sight of their motives, their souls, even the object itself, Don DeLillo reveals the terrible truth behind our acquisitiveness in Running Dog – a masterful thriller from an award-winning novelist."
"In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, 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. And still they remain untouched, 'players' indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create.
Originally published in 1977, Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which Don DeLillo is renowned today."
"When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground. There, away from the rest of the world, this panel of estranged, demented and lovable scientists work together on a secret scientific project: deciphering a mysterious transmission received from outer space, from just near Ratner's Star.
Written in Don DeLillo's characteristically mesmerizing prose, Ratner's Star is a brilliantly observed, funny and deeply thought-provoking novel which explores the mysterious, mind-blowing, mathematical world of the future."
"Eine Meditation über den Tod und eine Liebeserklärung an das Leben
Jeffrey Lockharts Vater Ross, ein Milliardär in seinen Sechzigern, versucht das Leben seiner jüngeren, schwerkranken Frau Artis zu retten. Zu dem Zweck bringt er sie in ein Forschungszentrum, in dem menschliches Leben durch Einfrieren verlängert werden soll, bis eines fernen Tages biomedizinische Fortschritte es erlauben, unrettbare Fälle von heute doch noch zu heilen und ihnen neue Möglichkeiten zu schenken. 'Wir wurden ohne Freiheit der Wahl geboren. Sollen wir etwa genauso sterben? Das nicht zu akzeptieren - wäre das nicht eine grandiose Errungenschaft?' Ross sucht neue Welten, andere Dimensionen, sein Sohn Jeffrey läßt nur das Leben im Hier und Jetzt gelten.
Welche Themen für den Mystiker DeLillo, dessen Welt in 'Null K' unsere realen Gefährdungen klar sieht und sich doch nicht entmutigen läßt und aller Zerstörung die Schönheit und Menschlichkeit des Alltags entgegensetzt!"
"Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity.
He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succeeds in inflaming interest . . .
Great Jones Street, Don DeLillo's third novel, is more than a musical satire: it probes the rights of the individual, foreshadows the struggle of the artist within a capitalist world and delivers a scathing portrait of our culture's obsession with the lives of the few."
"Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk analyst is drawn to search for an explanation. We follow his progress on an obsessive journey that begins to take over his life and the lives of those closest to him.
In addition to offering a series of precise character studies, The Names explores the intersection of language and culture, the perception of America from both inside and outside its borders, and the impact that narration has on the facts of a story. Meditative and probing, DeLillo wonders: how does one cope with the fact that the act of articulation is simultaneously capable of defining and circumscriptively restricting access to the self?"
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