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Zusatztext Michael Naas makes you remember why you love DeLillo. Don DeLillo! American Original mines DeLillo's entire body of work! searching out its paradoxical 'contraband' - that which is literally forbidden or unlawful - and reconfiguring it in terms of its contrabanded language - resistance as counterpoint. Such contrapuntal rules of harmony and pulse are the stuff of DeLillo's literary genius and embody his contrabando style - the unauthorized smuggling of incongruous elements into every aspect of the story. Naas's book is an entirely enjoyable read! frequently punctuated by DeLillo's own syncopated rhythms and resonant in its analysis of the author's language. Informationen zum Autor Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at DePaul University, USA. He has published numerous works in ancient philosophy (particularly on Plato), contemporary French philosophy (particularly on Jacques Derrida), and American literature, including Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is a founding member of the Derrida Seminar Translation Project and co-editor of the Oxford Literary Review .A radical reassessment of one of our most important contemporary novelists. Zusammenfassung Don DeLillo, American Original is a startlingly original and provocative reinterpretation of one of the most important novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Adopting a direct approach that steers clear of debates with secondary literature and covering the full arc of Don DeLillo’s career from A to Z – Americana (1971) to Zero K (2016) – Michael Naas shows that the extraordinary power, authority, insight, and inventiveness of DeLillo’s fiction are the result of the way it traffics everywhere in contraband goods and narratives, in doubleness or duplicity of every kind, in multiple voices, story lines, times, places, and media that at once interrupt and complement one another. This is a book that invites skimming and dipping, structured into easily digestible sections on everything from weapons and drugs to erotica, nuclear waste, and secret societies, each preceded by humorous and incisive epigraphs from DeLillo's novels. Michael Naas reads DeLillo's fiction as a way of life or as equipment for living, rather than as a critical puzzle to be solved – and thereby opens up new horizons for thinking about why literature matters in the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis AbbreviationsPreface: Don DeLillo's Contraband: Taking Stock, from Americana to Zero K 1. Controlled & Uncontrolled Substances2. Underworlds & Undercurrents3. Counterpoints & Counternarratives4. Media & Mediatization5. Arts of Duplicity6. Double Takes7. Writing in Tongues8. Words for WordsCountersignatureAcknowledgements...
