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In novel after award-winning novel, Don DeLillo (b. 1936) exhibits his deep distrust of language and the way it can conceal as much as it reveals. Not surprisingly, DeLillo treats interviews with the same care and caution. For years, he shunned them altogether. As his fiction grew in popularity, especially with White Noise, and he began to confront the historical record of
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Hardcover, 183 pages
Published
January 18th 2005
by University Press of Mississippi
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I don't create characters. I let them speak for themselves.
I am not really the sort of readers who believe that it is crucial to read about an author in order to understand his works better. But I may start to question that assumption. Reading interviews with DeLillo offered me a broader vision of his novels. It's not that he established some truths about his works. quite the contrary. He shows us that we need to actually dialogue with the characters rather than with their writer. Most of the t ...more
I am not really the sort of readers who believe that it is crucial to read about an author in order to understand his works better. But I may start to question that assumption. Reading interviews with DeLillo offered me a broader vision of his novels. It's not that he established some truths about his works. quite the contrary. He shows us that we need to actually dialogue with the characters rather than with their writer. Most of the t ...more
The interview from Paris Review is by far the best interview to be found in here. It's worth either getting a copy of this book, or hunting down the issue itself (it doesn't seem that this one has come out in the so-far published volumes of The Paris Review Interviews). Many other interviews have moments of mild interest, but I'm shocked to think that these were the best of the available interviews out there (though that number isn't all that high, since DeLillo doesn't like doing many intervi
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just an amazing collection of interviews! yes, sometimes it sounds repetative, sometimes as it seems Don just didn`t want to talk much, but nevertheless this collection is a great insight into "frolic of his own", these interviews give a much more than tons of critical articles.
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Five stars.
DeLillo is eerily prophetic as always. At the end of a 1997 interview, a paragraph reads: Underworld ends with the fall of the Soviet Union and its conflict with the West. As DeLillo thinks about the era we’re living in, and writing about it, he has also been thinking about a passage in Hermann Broch’s novel The Death of Virgil. “He uses the term ‘no longer and not yet,’” DeLillo said. “I think he’s referring to the fact that his poet, Virgil, is in a state of delirium, no longer quit ...more
DeLillo is eerily prophetic as always. At the end of a 1997 interview, a paragraph reads: Underworld ends with the fall of the Soviet Union and its conflict with the West. As DeLillo thinks about the era we’re living in, and writing about it, he has also been thinking about a passage in Hermann Broch’s novel The Death of Virgil. “He uses the term ‘no longer and not yet,’” DeLillo said. “I think he’s referring to the fact that his poet, Virgil, is in a state of delirium, no longer quit ...more
MUST READ. I bet DeLillo is awesome and mildly crazy. If he's even half as crazy as Philip K Dick was I'll be happy. Ha
Jan 24, 2014
Mugren Ohaly
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The interviews are very much repetitive
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Don DeLillo is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives outside of New York City.
Among the most influential American writers of the past decades, DeLillo has received, among author awards, a National Book Award (White Noise, 1985), a PEN/Faulkner Award (Mao II, 1991), and an American ...more
Among the most influential American writers of the past decades, DeLillo has received, among author awards, a National Book Award (White Noise, 1985), a PEN/Faulkner Award (Mao II, 1991), and an American ...more
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“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
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“I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ”
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