Cosmopolis

by Don DeLillo

It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. A violent protest is being staged by anti-globalist groups and Eric fears that he may be a target. He is very much the target - but not by the protestors.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, American, Literature, Literary Fiction, New York

209 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.
DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the Kennedy assassination. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld, a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
DeLillo has described his themes as "living in dangerous times" and "the inner life of the culture." In a 2005 interview, he said that writers "must oppose systems. It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments... I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us."

Reviews

[Moshtagh hosein]

جهان شهر،سفر یک‌ بورژوا در خیابان های شهر نیویورک را نشان می‌دهد. این رمان با پس زمینه یک بحران مالی و ناآرامی اجتماعی، به انزوا، ثروت، قدرت و جستجوی معنا در دنیای بیش از حد به هم پیوسته را بررسی می کند.

کتاب به ماهیت هویت و جستجوی معنا در دنیایی است که به سرعت در حال تغییر است،می‌پردازد.تلاش پکر برای درک خود و جایگاهش در جامعه در نهایت منجر به رویارویی با فناپذیری خود می شود و متوجه می شود که تحقق واقعی را نمی توان در دارایی های مادی یا اعتبار خارجی یافت.

جهان‌شهر، نقدی سخت از جامعه معاصر و جستجوی ثروت به قیمت ارتباط انسانی ارائه می‌کند. از طریق گست‌و‌گذار پکر، دان دلیلو خوانندگان را به چالش می کشد تا ارزش ها و اولویت های خود را در عصر بیگانگی و عدم اطمینان فزاینده زیر سوال ببرند.

البته قبلش باید برفک را می‌خواندم که ولی خب،فیلمش رو هم باید ببینم!

[Farzad Amiri]

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