DeLillo: World Narrative

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"For many years," he says, "probably since the late 1980s, I've thought it
wasn't novelists who were writing the world narrative anymore. It was
terrorists. It seemed that the air -- that the news itself but, beyond that,
the air -- was filled with that kind of threat and that kind of violence.
It's not as though novelists ever had that kind of effect, but there was a
time when you could think of the world as having been created in a piece of
fiction or a body of work."

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