New Releases by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is the author of Ruído branco (2023), Tystnaden (2021), El silencio (2020), The Silence (2020), Die Stille (2020), Underverden (2020).

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Ruído branco

release date: Feb 28, 2023
Ruído branco
Um professor vive com a família numa cidadezinha americana, abandonada depois de um acidente industrial. DeLillo inspirou-se em desastres reais neste romance de estilo cirúrgico, que mimetiza o som do tráfego de uma auto-estrada. O grotesco e o absurdo na vida moderna americana. Ruído branco, o oitavo romance de DeLillo, é a história de um professor universitário que vive com a família no Meio-oeste americano, numa cidadezinha que é evacuada depois de um acidente industrial. À luz de desastres como o da Union Carbide na Índia, que matou mais de duas mil pessoas e feriu outras milhares (e que acabara de ocorrer quando o livro foi publicado), Ruído branco mantém seu sentido atual e aterrorizante. "A grande particularidade de Ruído branco é sua compreensão e percepção da trilha sonora dos Estados Unidos. O ruído branco inclui o som sempre presente do tráfego da auto-estrada, um murmúrio remoto e constante que contorna nosso sono, como almas mortas balbuciando nas margens de um sonho. Não é tanto com o caráter que DeLillo se preocupa: seu tema é basicamente a cultura, a sobrevivência e a interdependência crescente entre o eu e a comunidade nacional e mundial. O homem viril diante dos elementos, o fora-da- lei, o super-herói, existem no mundo moderno apenas como mitos; somos os elementos da natureza, um povo tecnologicamente orientado que nem por isso deixa de estar preso na peneira da história. No que DeLillo escreve existe o suspense e uma inteligência que questiona, um sentido simultâneo do círculo que se amplia e da malha fina da rede." - The New York Times Book Review

Tystnaden

release date: Jan 26, 2021
Tystnaden
Det är en söndag 2022, och på Manhattan gör man sig redo för att se Super Bowl när all digital kommunikation plötsligt bryts. I en lägenhet möts fem människor som fyller tystnaden med ett samtal som rör sig in mot existensens innersta rum: Vilka är vi egentligen när bruset försvinner? Vad innebär det att vara människa i en värld som vår? Tystnaden skrevs innan Covid-19 tog över världen, men dess handling speglar på ett spöklikt sätt vår tids undantagstillstånd. Frågorna den ställer, däremot, är tidlösa.

El silencio

release date: Oct 27, 2020
El silencio
En un mundo dominado por la tecnología, un apagón mundial obligará a un grupo de amigos a replantearse qué es aquello que nos hace humanos. Domingo de la Super Bowl. Año 2022. Cinco amigos han quedado para cenar en un apartamento en Manhattan. Una profesora de Física jubilada, su esposo y su exalumno esperan a la pareja que se unirá a ellos tras un accidentado vuelo desde París. La conversación abarca desde las apuestas deportivas hasta el bourbon y el manuscrito de 1912 de Einstein sobre la teoría de la relatividad. De pronto, un apagón deja al mundo a oscuras y las conexiones digitales que han marcado nuestras vidas se cortan. Don DeLillo completó esta novela pocas semanas antes del advenimiento de la Covid-19. El silencio es la historia de una catástrofe diferente y una vuelta de tuerca al poshumanismo como tema central de su obra: si ya habíamos asimilado la tecnología como una parte esencial del ser humano, ¿qué queda de nosotros, de nuestra identidad, si nos vemos obligados a renunciar a ella? Desde el asesinato de Kennedy hasta el 11-S, DeLillo ha sabido reflejar en sus novelas los hechos que han marcado cada momento histórico. El silencio describe una sociedad cuya mayor amenaza ha dejado de ser algo tangible para convertirse en un enemigo invisible, ya sea una pandemia, un ataque informático o el caos financiero.

The Silence

release date: Oct 20, 2020
The Silence
From the National Book Award–winning author of Underworld, a “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein’s 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. What follows is a “brilliant and astonishing…masterpiece” (Chicago Tribune) about what makes us human. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of the Covid pandemic. His language, the dazzle of his sentences offer a kind of solace in our bewildering world. “DeLillo’s shrewd, darkly comic observations about the extravagance and alienation of contemporary life can still slice like a scalpel” (Entertainment Weekly). “In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we’ve come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo’s entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal.” —Rachel Kushner

Die Stille

release date: Oct 20, 2020
Die Stille
Die Welt im Ausnahmezustand – Don DeLillos neuer Roman ist das Buch der Stunde. Nur wenige Wochen vor Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie schloss Don DeLillo die Arbeit an seinem neuen Roman ab. Ein Werk mit verblüffenden Parallelen zur aktuellen Situation in der Welt. Ein literarischer Meilenstein. New York im Jahr 2022: Es ist der Super Bowl Sunday. In einer Wohnung auf der East Side von Manhattan wollen fünf Menschen gemeinsam das Finale der American Football-League im Fernsehen anschauen. Die emeritierte Physikprofessorin, ihr Mann und ihr früherer Student warten auf die Ankunft eines befreundeten Paares, das gerade auf dem Rückflug von Paris ist. Die Gespräche drehen sich um Einsteins Relativitätstheorie, ein Überwachungsteleskop im nördlichen Chile und eine besondere Bourbon Marke. Und dann passiert etwas Seltsames – auf einmal brechen alle digitalen Verbindungen ab. Sämtliche Bildschirme werden schwarz. Tiefschwarz. Die Freunde treffen ein, ihr Flug war dramatisch. Verwunderung, Erschütterung, Mutmaßungen. Die fünf versuchen sich einen Reim auf das rätselhafte, beängstigende Geschehen zu machen. Sie tauchen tief ein in das Wesen der Zeit, in die Essenz der menschlichen Existenz. Es ist geradezu unheimlich, wie hellsichtig Don DeLillo in seinem neuen Roman die gegenwärtige Situation in der Welt reflektiert oder gar vorwegnimmt. Seine geschliffene Sprache, seine Phantasie und sein seismographisches Gespür machen »Die Stille« zu einem unvergleichlichen literarischen Kunstwerk.

Underverden

release date: Sep 17, 2020
Underverden
Den 3. oktober 1951 sidder Toots Shor, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra og J. Edgar Hoover i en af New York Polo Grounds loger for at overvære mesterskabsopgøret mellem Brooklyn Dodgers’ og New York Giants’. Mens Hoover får besked om, at russerne har foretaget en atomprøvesprængning, afgøres kampen ved Bobby Thomsons legendariske home run – "slaget, der gav genlyd jorden rundt", og Giants vinder mesterskabet. I "Underverden" kortlægger Don DeLillo verden i årene efter disse begivenheder, de 40 år der blev kaldt Den Kolde Krig. Med sin fokusering på både den officielle politiske historie og på individet skæbne i historiens underverden er romanen en fortælling om hverdagslivets betingelser i skyggen af den offentlige paranoia. ""Underverden" er en fremragende bog af en amerikansk mester." – Salman Rushdie Don DeLillo (f. 1936) er født i New York og er en af de mest anerkendte nulevende amerikanske forfattere. Han debuterede i 1971 med romanen "Americana" og har sidenhen været en fundamental del af den postmoderne litteratur. Forfattere som Brett Easton Ellis og David Foster Wallace er begge blevet inspireret af Don DeLillos værker.

Vægten

release date: Sep 17, 2020
Vægten
Dybt utilfreds med udfaldet af Cubakrisen beslutter nogle afdankede CIA-agenter at iscenesætte et mislykket attentat mod præsident John F. Kennedy. De planlægger at attentatforsøget efterfølgende skal tilskrives Fidel Castro for på den måde at skabe modvilje mod den amerikanske udenrigspolitik. Lee Harvey Oswald, en falleret marinesoldat, bliver udvalgt som attenetatmand. Han har længe været fascineret af Karl Marx, boet i Rusland og har derudover været aktiv i uddelingen af oplysningsmateriale til fordel for Cuba. Men Oswald er vægelsindet og trods presset fra agenterne kan han ikke beslutte sig til, om han vil være med eller ej. Og hans beslutning bliver afgørende for Amerikas skæbne: Skal Dallas blot være et endnu et stop på præsidentens rundrejse, eller skal det blive stedet, hvor alle amerikanske drømme snigmyrdes? Don DeLillo (f. 1936) er født i New York og er en af de mest anerkendte nulevende amerikanske forfattere. Han debuterede i 1971 med romanen "Americana" og har sidenhen været en fundamental del af den postmoderne litteratur. Forfattere som Brett Easton Ellis og David Foster Wallace er begge blevet inspireret af Don DeLillos værker.

Joueurs

release date: Jan 02, 2018
Joueurs
Un roman prémonitoire et d''une angoisse pertinente sur la montée du terrorisme aux Etats-Unis. Où l''on mesure l''écart sans cesse grandissant entre la vie et le sens que peuvent lui donner des sociétés contemporaines irresponsables.

Noll K

release date: Oct 14, 2016
Noll K
”Vi föds utan att ha valt det. Måste vi dö på samma sätt?” På en hemlig plats i Centralasien har miljardären Ross Lockhart skapat en anläggning där svårt sjuka kan frysas ner i hopp om att en dag få återvända till livet. Dit kommer hans son Jeffrey, för att bevittna styvmodern Artis sista dagar. Efter flera böcker i det mindre formatet återkommer Don DeLillo med en brett anlagd roman om vår tid. ”Noll K” är en mästerlig skildring av livets kamp med döden.

Zero K (versione italiana)

release date: Oct 11, 2016
Zero K (versione italiana)
«Tra centinaia di anni, ammesso che l''umanità non si sia estinta e continui a leggere libri, se qualcuno vorrà capire cos''era la vita in Occidente tra la fine del ventesimo secolo e l''inizio del nuovo millennio non avrà modo migliore per farlo che leggere i romanzi di Don DeLillo». Jennifer Egan

Zero K

release date: May 03, 2016
Zero K
A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld” (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body. “We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn’t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?” These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.” Don DeLillo’s “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) new novel weighs the darkness of the world—terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague—against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, “the intimate touch of earth and sun.” “One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career” (The New York Times Book Review), Zero K is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.

Amerikana

release date: May 25, 2015
Amerikana
Den före detta tv-mannen David Bell försöker sig på en ny karriär som dokumentärfilmare. Men vad som är tänkt att handla om Navajo-indianer blir ett bisarrt försök till en »mystisk och helig« självbiografi. Denna tar honom på en roadtrip genom USA, på jakt efter något autentiskt att säga om sitt liv och om världen. Människorna i Don DeLillos debutroman Amerikana [1971] famlar i en labyrint av kollapsande institutioner, som historiens, den kapitalistiska ekonomins, språkets och könets lögner. Redan här går hans geniala satir över människan i masskulturens era för full maskin. Amerikana presenteras här för första gången på svenska, i översättning av Caj Lundgren. DON DELILLO [f. 1936] är en av USA:s viktigaste författare under de senaste femtio åren. Flera gånger har han tilldelats The American Book Award. Bland internationella priser kan nämnas det prestigefyllda Jerusalempriset, som han som förste amerikan erhöll 1999, och han omnämns ofta som Nobelpriskandidat. Don DeLillo är numera bosatt i sin födelsestad New York. »Amerikana består nästan enbart av klockrena meningar, och liksom insisterar på en autenticitet bakom alla stereotyper. DeLillo är en man med en skrämmande iakttagelseförmåga.« JOYCE CAROL OATES »DeLillo är en författare som, när man väl läst honom, får en att vilja läsa allt han skrivit.« MARTIN AMIS, THE SUNDAY TIMES »Fyndigt, smart och skarpsynt... en magnifikt genomförd historia.« TIME OUT

La stella di Ratner

release date: Jun 17, 2014
La stella di Ratner
Un ragazzino geniale precipita - come Alice nella tana del bianconiglio - nel mondo folle e misterioso di un centro di ricerca: gli scienziati hanno ricevuto un segnale dalla stella di Ratner, il messaggio di un''intelligenza aliena che solo Billy è in grado di decifrare. Il romanzo culto di Don DeLillo, per la prima volta tradotto in italiano, si rivela essere tra le sue opere più vertiginose e potenti, in cui l''ironia e il divertimento fanno da controcanto a note più profonde, vibrazioni sottili e minacciose «appena oltre la linea che segna la fine di questa vita». Se DeLillo dovesse riscrivere Alice nel paese delle meraviglie , il risultato sarebbe questo libro.

L'ange Esmeralda

release date: Jan 01, 2013

Unterwelt

release date: May 14, 2012
Unterwelt
Ein faszinierendes Panorama der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, meisterhaft erzählt von Don DeLillo. Nick Shay, Manager einer Müllentsorgungsfirma, trägt eine Schuld aus seiner Jugend mit sich. In Arizona lebt er mit seiner Familie, während die Konzeptkünstlerin Klara Sax in der Wüste ausrangierte B-52-Bomber bemalt und so ein gigantisches Kunstobjekt erschafft. Einst hatten Nick und Klara in der Bronx eine kurze, leidenschaftliche Affäre. Ihre Lebensläufe und Erinnerungen verweben sich mit einer Vielzahl unvergesslicher Figuren, realen und fiktiven Ereignissen aus Politik, Sport und Kunst sowie einem Baseball, der 1951 bei einem berühmten Spiel geschlagen wurde, als zeitgleich die Sowjetunion ihre erste Atombombe zündete. In einer lebendigen, originellen Sprache zeichnet »Unterwelt« ein facettenreiches Bild Amerikas und des Zeitgeschehens zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein unvergleichlicher Roman über Gesellschaft, Werbung und den Kalten Krieg.

Ratner's Star

release date: Apr 11, 2012
Ratner's Star
"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo''s first novels, Ratner''s Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner''s Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo''s later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times

The Names

release date: Apr 11, 2012
The Names
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo''s bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator''s estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo''s more recent and highly acclaimed works. "The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times "DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement "DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times

Players

release date: Mar 28, 2012
Players
In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. "The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo''s art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions."--New York Times Book Review

Falling Man

release date: Feb 15, 2012
Falling Man
Ein kühnes Meisterwerk – Don DeLillos großer Roman über den 11. September New York am 11. September. Eine Stadt in Asche und Rauch. In eindringlichen Bildern zeichnet Don DeLillo den Ablauf der Ereignisse nach: von den Tätern zu den Opfern, von Hamburg nach New York. Erzählt wird das Leben einer Familie, die berührende Geschichte einer Liebe, der Alltag nach der Katastrophe. Keith Neudecker, der im World Trade Center gearbeitet hat, kann sich am 11. 9. aus einem der brennenden Türme retten. Er sieht, was geschieht, ohne es zu begreifen, und schlägt sich wie in Trance zu seiner Ex-Frau Lianne und seinem kleinen Sohn Justin durch. In ihrer Verzweiflung klammern sich Keith und Lianne aneinander, sie wollen aus der Einsamkeit der Angst in ein gemeinsames Leben zurückfinden. Gespräche, vor allem in Liannes Familie, kreisen um den Schock, um den Terrorismus als ständige Bedrohung. Justin und seine Freunde versuchen im Spiel ihre Angst vor den Terroristen zu überwinden. Keith durchlebt immer wieder das Trauma der Flucht aus den Türmen, und Lianne irrt ziellos durch die Stadt. Und dann sieht sie voller Entsetzen Falling Man, einen Performance-Künstler. Nur mit einem Seil gesichert, stürzt er sich als Chronist des Zeitalters des Terrors hoch oben von den Wolkenkratzern in die Tiefe. Der Terror bestimmt die Realität. »Falling Man« ist ein weiterer Höhepunkt in DeLillos Werk. Von Neuem beweist der Autor, wie scharfsinnig und zugleich sensibel er einschneidende Ereignisse wahrnimmt. Mit großer sprachlicher Kunst und Prägnanz gelingt es Don DeLillo, das scheinbar Unsagbare überzeugend in Worte zu fassen. Die Originalausgabe des Romans erschien am 15. 5. 2007 in den USA.

Vågen

release date: Jan 01, 2012
Vågen
I Vågen kombinerar Don DeLillo fakta, hypoteser och fiktion till en mångfacetterad skildring av de händelser som ledde fram till mordet på John F. Kennedy den 22 november 1963. Berättelsen som vävs fram - lika skrämmande som den är fängslande - följer Lee Harvey Oswalds väg från de problemfyllda tonåren till den instabile unge man som söker efter en roll åt sig själv i historien. När »historien« dyker upp i form av tre baksluga CIA-agenter tippar vågskålen ohjälpligt över och Oswald är fången i händelser långt bortom hans kontroll. DON DELILLO [1936-] är en USA:s mest hyllade nu levande författare. Han debuterade 1971 med romanen Americana och fick sitt stora genombrott 1985 med White Noise [Vitt brus, 1986]. Liksom Underworld från 1997 [Under jord, 2001] räknas Vågen till de största amerikanska romanerna i modern tid. »En skrämmande och fascinerande rekonstruktion av århundradets mord, och samtidigt en roman som fungerar som en thriller... en mästerligt subtil mosaik av röster som har tänkvärda saker att säga om våldet och ödsligheten i vår tid.« SVENSKA DAGBLADET »En fullt medveten blandning av fakta, myt och dikt... skriven av Don DeLillo, en av USA:s bästa författare.« SYDSVENSKA DAGBLADET »Vad DeLillo framför allt lyckas förmedla, eller suggegera fram, är den samhälleliga miljö i vilken spväl den konspiratoriska fantasin som den politiska paranoian får sin näring.« EXPRESSEN »En skakande resa in i USA:s hjärta.« THE OBSERVER

Submundo

release date: Aug 05, 2011
Submundo
Recuperación de la novela más emblemática de Don DeLillo y una de las obras más importantes del siglo XX. El 3 de octubre de 1951 un estadio de Nueva York fue escenario de un partido de béisbol legendario que culminó en un grito colectivo cuando, en el último momento, los Giants consiguieron una inesperada victoria. Ese mismo día la Unión Soviética probaba la bomba atómica. Éste es el punto de partida de Submundo, en palabras de Salman Rushdie, «un libro magnífico de un maestro americano». Don DeLillo relata en su novela más emblemática cincuenta años de historia estadounidense, y nos ofrece una visión única del alma de la sociedad moderna: sus miedos y obsesiones, sus esperanzas y deseos, sus logros y frustraciones. Desde las grandes salas de baile de Nueva York hasta los bombardeos de Vietnam o la Guerra Fría, figuras que marcaron una época se mezclan con seres anónimos y juntos iluminan los secretos de nuestra era. Considerada por el New York Times como una de las cinco mejores novelas estadounidenses de los últimos veinticinco años, Submundo es una obra de arte polifónica que acepta todos los desafíos, un clásico contemporáneo de ambición inigualable: «Una asombrosa y luminosa obra de arte», Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review; «Un libro brillante que ha convertido a DeLillo en un gran novelista», Martin Amis, The New York Times.

Punto omega

release date: Aug 05, 2011
Punto omega
La nueva novela de «uno de los autores más inteligentes e inquietantes de EE.UU.» The Times «La mejor novela de Don DeLillo después de Submundo», Sunday Times Richard Elster, un misterioso asesor de guerra del Pentágono, vive retirado en el desierto, donde ha ido en busca de espacio y tiempo. Hasta allí lo sigue Jim, un joven cineasta obstinado en rodar su película más ambiciosa: un plano fijo de la cara de Elster, mientras éste revela a cámara secretos de Estado y reflexiona sobre la guerra de Irak. Los dos hombres comparten su tiempo charlando y bebiendo. Cuando la hija de Elster, Jessie, llega de visita, la dinámica de la historia se altera. Los tres pasarán horas hablando y contemplando el desolado paisaje, y establecerán unos vínculos tiernos y extraños a la vez, casi como si fueran una familia. Pero un hecho devastador pondrá esta relación en peligro. Punto omega es una desconcertante y brillante novela.

Ponto ômega

release date: May 02, 2011
Ponto ômega
"O premiado autor americano Don DeLillo constrói em Ponto ômega uma narrativa de estrutura incomum para falar das ambivalências da representação artística e dos limites da consciência humana. O livro conta a história de dois homens - um jovem cineasta e um velho intelectual que trabalhou para o Pentágono - em busca de uma verdade essencial. Os caminhos de ambos, porém, são opostos: arte e guerra, reflexão e expressão, pensamento e imagem. A linguagem de DeLillo se mostra a um só tempo experimental e envolvente, em uma narrativa concisa e poderosa. Neste relato sobre os limites da expressão, dois homens estão à procura da verdade, por estratégias singulares e muitas vezes opostas. Guerra e paz, realidade e arte, silêncio e linguagem podem ser diferentes caminhos para atingir o ponto ômega, em que o pensamento se volta para si mesmo e atinge o limite da reflexão - isso se o acaso não vier abalar o frágil equilíbrio em que se sustenta a consciência humana. "

The Angel Esmeralda

release date: Jan 01, 2011
The Angel Esmeralda
Collects nine stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth.

Point Omega

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Point Omega
Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the world as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, ''somewhere south of nowhere''. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Weeks go by. And then Elster''s daughter Jessie visits. When a devastating event follows, all the men''s talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. Written in hypnotic prose, Point Omega is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible.

Libra (versione italiana)

release date: Dec 01, 2010
Libra (versione italiana)
«L''immaginazione apocalittica di DeLillo affronta l''assassinio di John Fitzgerald Kennedy in un racconto che lascia senza fiato». Newsday

Punt Omega

release date: Nov 01, 2010

Pafko at the Wall

release date: Jun 30, 2008
Pafko at the Wall
"There''s a long drive. It''s gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." -- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson''s pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher''s box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra''s celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game -- the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo''s transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.

El hombre del salto

release date: Jan 01, 2008

Falling man

release date: May 01, 2007
Falling man
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he''d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.
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