New DeLillo

[Richard Romeo]

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I suppose delillo's penchant for not writing the same book again and again 
(though he was accused of doing just that early in his career)--TBA book is 
performance art in words. (BTW, Rumor is he may be working on some sort of 
book about the Aum Shinriyko cult.)
Two other thoughts regarding the novel:  TBA reminds me of DD's piece in 
support of a Chinese dissident: The Artist in a Cage (also refers to a 
German(?) performance artist who pretended he was a dog).
Also, there's one scene in the book that is a perfect description of the 
movie Satantango, the flick I saw that had DD in the same audience last 
year:  the novel refers somewhere to watching a still-life in real 
time--perfect description for that film's long and extended shots of what 
are in effect still life(s). Could be wrong, just an impression of mine.

Don't think anyone can accuse the man of being a cold-hearted novelist with 
the last two books--there's a couple of scenes in The Body Artist that are 
heart-breakenly beautiful.

Rich


>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>To: Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: New DeLillo
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:47:13 -0500
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>Richard Romeo wrote:
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> > body artist is a very strange book.
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> > still pondering its worth--multiple readings required
> >
> > rich
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>How does he do it Richard. He keeps them coming like old
>charlie dickens, amazing. And no they are not stuffed fat
>paid by the page. Underworld is unbelievable, beautiful
>work.

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