ISBN: 9781982164560
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: DeLillo, Don
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 144
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: From the National Book Award–winning author of Underworld, a “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event.It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein’s 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. What follows is a “brilliant and astonishing…masterpiece” (Chicago Tribune) about what makes us human. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of the Covid pandemic. His language, the dazzle of his sentences offer a kind of solace in our bewildering world. “DeLillo’s shrewd, darkly comic observations about the extravagance and alienation of contemporary life can still slice like a scalpel” (Entertainment Weekly). “In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we’ve come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo’s entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal.” —Rachel Kushner Review Praise for Don DeLillo and The Silence: "DeLillo has a special receiver that we the rest of us don’t have. He can hear and see things in the culture long before everybody else does. Every sentence radiates with his uncanny feeling for this moment and for the moment about to come." —Rachel Kushner, author of The Hard Crowd "DeLillo . . . creates a powerful rendering of a crowd unified by a terrifying event that defies all available models of comprehension." —The New Yorker "[Readers] will find something poignant and terrible in this strange unbroken silence." —Michael Gorra, NY Review of Books “[DeLillo] isolate[s] the raw material of the form, the language, through speech fragments and monologues, in the same way a painter might with color ... It’s an ability of DeLillo’s both philosophic and poetic, to stare at the familiar thing, to see the familiar new…” —Alexander Sammartino, Literary Hub "DeLillo's prose is always supple, his gaze into our culture's black hole as penetrating as ever. Equal parts lush and spare, The Silence never settles for easy answers." —Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "DeLillo's shrewd, darkly comic observations about the extravagance and alienation of contemporary life can still slice like a scalpel." —Leah Greenblatt, EW “To read DeLillo is to engage in a process wherein the author’s clarity forces our own...He treats the topical...as a yearning for commonality, mutuality, something to share...He wants to tell us not just what is, but how it feels, and It’s this ability to describe the moment’s emotion that constitutes his genius.” —Joshua Cohen, New York Times Book Review "It is in his deft handling of the novel event's consequences—the space he creates in the wake of disruption—that DeLillo achieves his most profound effects." —M. C. Armstrong, The Brooklyn Rail "This masterfully written tale is compelling, timely and utterly eye-opening." —Kami Phillips, CNN Underscored “DeLillo is the premiere 'writer’s writer'…He…returns with new language, reconstructing sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph true-feeling motifs about how all of this works.” —Lauren Michele Jackson, Ssense "The American master’s latest work of fiction..." —AV Club "In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we've come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo's entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal." —Rachel Kushner "A swift and searing haunting of a nov
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