Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo Book Reviews

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Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo by Philipp Wolf Book Summary

This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focuses 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 sociopsychological symptoms and responses death elicits. His "reflection on dying" revolves around defensive mechanisms and destruction fantasies, immortalism and cryonics, covert and overt surrogates, consumerism and media, and the mortification of the body. His characters give themselves to mourning and 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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Book Name Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo
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Summary of Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo by Philipp Wolf

The Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo book written by Philipp Wolf was published on 30 May 2022, Monday in the Literary Criticism category. A total of 90 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.

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