DeLillo Comment

[Richard Romeo]

Found interesting tidbits from a DeLillo talk given last year:

 

On the subject of whether the influence of cinema that fueled "Americana was still as strong on his work he replied in classic Delillo style that even though there are still fantastic film makers around we now "go to the movies to escape images."

Got the whole auditorium in stitches when to the question "is Bob Dylan one of your heroes?" he replied with deadpan humour: "Someone from the Bronx doesn,t have any heroes"

As to visual art he deemed "a legitimate observation that the reference to Rothko and pictures involving naked bodies in Cosmopolis might illustrate a stylistic shift to a more stripped form of writing. (this'll probably make Mr Q's blood boil-Rich)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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