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Laddar... Underworld (urspr publ 1997; utgåvan 2011)av Don DeLillo (Författare)
VerksinformationUnder jord av Don DeLillo (1997)
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A través de las vidas de Nick y Clara, dos antiguos amantes que se reencuentran después de muchos años, Submundo recorre la historia de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en Estados Unidos. Don DeLillo nos ofrece una visión única del alma de la sociedad americana moderna. Desde el Bronx y las grandes salas de baile de Nueva York hasta Vietnam y la guerra fría, figuras que marcaron una época se mezclan con seres anónimos, y unos y otros iluminan el pasado y el significado de la memoria. Submundo es una obra de arte polifónica que acepta todos los desafíos, un clásico contemporáneo de lectura imprescindible. The USSR should have won the Cold War I actually miss this monster of a book. I have a lot of complicated feelings about it that I may never work through completely. Reason read: 1001 Books, 2nd Quarter read, Reading 1001. ROOT (read our own tomes). The story is historical fiction, a postmodern novel that is set in the period of the fifties and sixties. The book opens with the baseball pennant race of 1951. What's not more American than baseball. Themes include; nuclear proliferation, waste, and everything else that epitomizes the 50s and 60s. DeLillo weaves the reality with the fiction throughout the book. The novel was published in 1997 and received a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize and won the American Book Award. It is set in the US states of New York, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and perhaps others I haven't gotten to yet. I will add that Minnesota was also mentioned as Nick spent his juvenile detention years in northeast Minnesota (my home town area). Also mentioned is Kazakhstan which is interesting fact because I just bought Soveitistan by Erika Fatland which covers all the 'stans'. It mentions that nuclear testing occurred here. And it mentions that people die young and die of cancer. The book probably is his best but I like Libra better, the difference might be the sprawling length of Underworld. Libra focuses only on Kennedy assassination while this book focuses on everything. I liked that it starts with the baseball game and the missing home run ball is the piece that connects the many people and points of the novel. Rating 3.9 stars My first reading of delillo. Very unfortunately, I got the abridged audiobook so I both didn't get to appreciate the whole book, and had it very neatly spoiled the whole way through. I downloaded the unabridged audiobook but it'll be a while until I want to read it again. But what I did get from it, I liked. It felt pretty scattered (abridged :-( ) but he has great gritty self-reflective prose. Hearing about the art, and about the nuclear waste, it did feel somehow american in a way I haven't read in a while. The characters felt very real, unforced, and not constrained by plot. The end with the internet I didn't really understand
1999 Don DeLillo Outremonde traduit de l'américain par M. Véron, Actes Sud «Ce qu'il interroge, avec entêtement, c'est la façon dont tout un peuple devenu paranoïaque réorganise sa vie dans un monde postatomique.» Catherine Argand (Lire, avril 1999) '"Underworld" is a victim of its own ambition: by trying to cover such a wide range of characters and situations, DeLillo loses track of some of them' ... 'Despite its faults DeLillo has created an ambitious and powerful novel...' This "is his best novel and perhaps that most elusive of creatures, a great American novel." Ingår i förlagsserienKeltainen kirjasto (315) InnehållerHar som referensvägledning/bredvidläsningsbokPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
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