Coover (Deedee DeLillo)

[Richard Romeo]

>>From: Monica Belevan <quodlibet at surrealestate.com>
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>>Don DeLillo is not thickly evocative of anything.
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I wonder Monica if you like John Banville, remarkable similar stylist like 
DeLillo but without the fascination with Godard, American sports, terrorism.

david sed:

>I started *Americana*, but didn't make it very far.  I probably didn't give 
> >it enough of a chance, but it never got off the ground for me.  There are 
> >too many things to read out there for me to trudge too long through 
> >anything, but I'm sure this attitude also costs me.
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Well, there's no denying DeLillo's place in conteporary american 
fiction--his works are just the opposite of Coover or Pynchon's 
highly-structured books--highly disorganized riffs on American culture. I 
think we Delillo is that once you get past the beauty of the language (and 
there are many nuggets in his mind(s), there isn't anything else to hang 
one's hat on. I've read all of his works at least twice--Banville mentioned 
recently that as much as he loved Beckett, after a certain point, he figured 
out what Beckett was doing, and became very bored with reading him. I guess 
I'm at the same point with reading DeLillo.
Judging from the Body Artist and the short story Baader-Meinhof, I think 
he's struggling to find a new voice, which appears to me to be not very 
interesting. Oblique for its own sake, much like the French movies and 
abstract art he's been obsessing about.

rich



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