Fallende M�nner - Don DeLillo und 9/11

[bekah]

At 7:51 AM -0400 5/17/07, Monte Davis wrote:
>  > I
>>  thought that the idea of  the major characters being cast into a
>>  debilitating state of dementia and resultant obsessive behavior
>>  mechanisms was new and quite interesting.
>
>Having watched just that happen to my country in 2002, I can only wish it
>were "new."
>

True.  As an event we've certainly seen it  before.   (We continue to 
see the results of the results? -  Who all was in the debilitating 
fog?)

But I don't remember anything like this in  DeLillo's prior works and 
as a theme  it suits him.   He's kind of replaced some of his 
traditional theme of paranoia with the total mental fog of 
psychological shock (like Alzheimer's)  This book is far more "about" 
9/11 than any of the other works which happen to include it in their 
plots - more even than Foer's book,  way more than Messud's and 
McEwan's work barely mentions it although it hovers. This book is 
"about" 9/11 and its effects on one family.   There are lots of 
layered issues and aspects.   I'll be reading it again shortly.

Bekah
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