Posted on 05/05/2007 6:09:54 PM PDT by dangerfield
...Mr. DeLillo has even envisioned the writer and the terrorist as direct rivals, each seeking the power to change history by changing the way it is understood. As he told an interviewer in 1985, "There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to." This insight, which once might have seemed paradoxical or frivolous, now looks like a simple statement of fact. Terror, we have learned during the last five years, regards individual bodies as a medium through which to affect the collective imagination. That is why the terrorist can so savagely disregard his victims' suffering, and why resistance to terrorism is always also an affirmation of humanism.
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ping to you and R
Yes, that’s an amazing novel. A lot of people missed the humor in it.
As early as the mid-70’s, his novels were concerned the rise of terrorism in Western consciousness. A very prescient writer.
Excellent review; sounds like a very interesting book. I enjoyed “Libra” a great deal.
Thanks for the post.
Woo Hoo! Glad somebody is doing somemthing other than watching youtube and HGTV.
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