DeLillo in Dublin

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 08:51, Peter Fellows-McCully wrote:
> Went to hear Don Delillo read from Cosmopolis and take some questions
> last night. Most questions centred around earlier works. Shortest answer
> of the night: "What was Underworld about?" Answer "Conflict".

I guess no one would have to ask what Cosmopolis is about. Rejection of
Greed, the Market, and Living Forever. Good book. Recommended.

P.


> 
> Also struck by the paralells between DeLillo and JG Ballard. Presidents
> being shot, large white american cars, surgical scars on bodies and the
> general air of dystopia. When DeLillo spoke of these things last night
> he sounded like a cross between Crash and the Atrocity Exhibition.
> 
> pfm
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