6/23/2023 0 Comments Underworld delillo![]() ![]() DeLillo’s great facility with a language perfectly tuned for irony and satire allows him to range the breadth and depth of these themes.Īll these thematic strains are present in Americana. ![]() This basic set of ideas includes the function (misfunction) of language as it relates to being, the absurdity of death and the meaning of apocalypse, the complications and chaotic workings of societies (particularly governments and institutions), the ontological purity of women and children, the notion of sacred spaces, and the interrelatedness of time, history, and myth. Thematically, each novel is a profound reworking of the familiar precepts that make up the core of his literary belief system. What little there is of traditional narrative structure in a Don DeLillo (1936- ) novel appears to serve principally as a vehicle for introspective meanderings, a thin framework for the knotting together of the author’s preoccupations about life and the world. ![]()
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