Дон Делилло — библиография

Трагедия 11 сентября 2001 года, увиденная глазами разных героев и в разных ракурсах. Клерк, выбирающийся из уже готовой обвалиться башни, террорист-угонщик, готовящийся к последнему полету, – и еще несколько персонажей, так или иначе вовлекаемых в трагические события. Впрочем, это, по сути, не столько рассказ о трагедии, сколько привычный американский “семейный” роман, в котором плавное течение жизни разбивается внешним вторжением, отчего линейное повествование рассыпается на структурно перемешивающиеся фрагменты.

В книге 28-летний миллиардер катит в лимузине по Манхэттену, направляясь к давнему парикмахеру своего отца, чтобы, не поверите, постричься, и на пути своем встречает разных занимательных персонажей. В частности, фигурируют в "Космополисе" некие наемные убийцы и голая жена героя. Добраться же до места назначение герою мешают — пробки, вызванные проездом президентского кортежа, некая похоронная процессия, народный митинг и прочая.

Don DeLillo's reputation rests on a series of large-canvas novels, in which he's proven to be the foremost diagnostician of our national psyche. In The Body Artist, however, he sacrifices breadth for depth, narrowing his focus to a single life, a single death. The protagonist is Lauren Hartke, who we see sharing breakfast with her husband, Rey, in the opening pages. This 18-page sequence is a tour de force (albeit a less showy one than the author's initial salvo in Underworld)--an intricate, funny notation of Lauren's consciousness as she pours cereal, peers out the window, and makes idle chat. Rey, alas, will proceed directly from the…

The Angel Esmerelda is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unconscious, longings; they are subjected to shocking violations, exposed to unexpected acts of terror. No matter whether he is focused upon the slums of New York or astronauts in orbit around the Earth, DeLillo chooses never to turn away from the unsettling manner in which humans are brought together. These nine stories describe the…

Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk analyst is drawn to search for an explanation. We follow his progress on an obsessive journey that begins to take over his life and the lives of those closest to him. In addition to offering a series of precise character studies, The Names explores the intersection of language and culture, the perception of America from both inside and outside its borders, and the impact that narration has on the facts of a story.…

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target... An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment;…

The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, Don DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to. As Lauren, the body artist of the title, becomes strangely detached from herself and the temporal world, the novel becomes an exploration of a highly abnormal grieving process; a fascinating expose of 'who we are when we are not rehearsing…

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover - and Bill's. An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the…

How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a train carriage releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality. White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo…

Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist, trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination, Libra presents an unapologeticly provocative picture of America in the second half of the last century.

An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against…

Перевод выполнен по публикации в журнале The New Yorker за август 2017 г.

?sna tavaline noormees Jeffrey satub oma multimiljon?rist isa kutsel Kasahstani asustamata umbsoppi, tohutusse akendeta tehnoloogilisse kompleksi, kus ?lirikkad inimesed lasevad end k?lmutada, et v?ita surma ja ?rgata kunagi paremasse tulevikumaailma. Jeffrey kasuema Artis, kes p?eb ravimatut haigust, soovib end k?lmutada. Hiljem, suutmata leinast ?le saada, laseb end k?lmutada ka Jeffrey isa. Lugu kirjeldabki Jeffrey p??et toimuvat m?ista ning inimese ja maailma suhet meie k?rgtehnoloogilisel ajastul.„Null K” on mitmekihiline ja m?neti irooniline romaan t?nap?eva maailmast, religioonist, v??randumisest, maailma l?pust, s?dametunnistusest…

New York, ?ks aprillip?ev aastal 2000. 28-aastane multimiljon?r Eric Packer s?idab oma kuulikindla limusiiniga p?iki l?bi Manhattani saare, kohtub sel teekonnal v?rvika inimgaleriiga ja sattub tunnistajaks nii m?nelegi tavatule s?ndmusele. Packer armastab kiiret s?itu kapitalistliku ?ri laineharjal, talle meeldib manipuleerida inimeste ja rahaga, planeerida ja ennustada. Selle aprillip?eva l?pp on aga ootamatu temalegi. DeLillo napp lause tungib meisterlikult tegelase m?tete ja ulmade maailma ning lahkab uue aastatuhande alguse vaimu.