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Il 3 ottobre 1951 al Polo Grounds di New York si gioca una leggendaria partita di baseball tra i Giants e i Dodgers. Della palla con cui viene battuto l'altrettanto leggendario fuoricampo che assicura la vittoria del campionato ai Giants si impadronisce un ragazzino nero di Harlem Cotter, Martin. Ritroveremo la palla cinquant'anni dopo in possesso di Nick Shay Costanza un dirigente dell'industria dello smaltimento dei rifiuti che nel 1951 era a sua volta ragazzino un passo più in là, nel Bronx. Nel romanzo di DeLillo i passaggi di mano della mitica palla servono da pretesto per la costruzione di un gigantesco quadro dell'America dalla guerra fredda fino alla crisi di Cuba e al crollo dell'Unione Sovietica.
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- Pagine: 886
- Data di uscita: 13-01-2014
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Underworld is a panoramic and bleak portrayal of society and it is cosmic in its vision of the human nature. Yes, the dead fall upon the living. But he begins to see that the living are sinners. The cardplayers, the lovers who dally, he sees the king in an ermine cloak with his fortune stashed in hog Leggi tutto
seriously, why does everyone suck this book's dick so much? this book was recommended to me by an ex (who also recommended zuleika dobson and the joke , so he had a good track record until then) who knew how much i liked infinite jest so he thought i would like this one. and if i only liked infinite Leggi tutto
I love reading James Wood on the novel. For me he’s up there with Virginia Woolf as a critic who genuinely enriches the experience of reading the novel. Even though he often denigrates authors I love. Don Delillo for example. Underworld for Wood was gratuitously obsessed with paranoia as if this was Leggi tutto
THE PILGRIM 'S HEART IS LIGHT AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS JOURNEY So I will strap on my backpack and don sturdy walking boots, an oxygen tank might be useful, and a supply of plasters and animal pelts - and then I will begin to scale the North Face of Modern American Literature. Let's see how far I ge Leggi tutto
People married, were born, and died in the time it took me to read this book. A kid sitting next to me on a plane commented "that's the fattest book I've ever seen. What's it about?" I told him "I have no idea--I'm only 580 pages into it." Having finished I still don't know what it was about but rea Leggi tutto
i've only put down three books in my entire life. the first was Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," which i absolutely loved but got terribly sick of after about 700 pages of the same goddamn philosophy being crammed down my throat. (which sounds like its awful, but i really did adore those first two third Leggi tutto
I'm surprised to see how many people here had the exact same reaction I did. They start reading, they find a few bits that seem quite gripping and well-written, they lose momentum, and they stop. Some hypotheses: - None of us are smart enough to get the point. - There is a clear point, but you have to Leggi tutto
I felt like this was one of those books where you kind of start getting drunk on the words and then you begin to think everything is super deep and has about 100 meanings and everything is interconnected. Then you start reading every sentence about 5 times and get lost in a daydream about how everyt Leggi tutto
Mis notas/guía de lectura para Submundo, de Don DeLillo Submundo es una obra autodestructiva, decadente, regresiva, un suicidio literario que moldea a su antojo el espacio-tiempo inalterable desde lo real pero posible desde las letras. Don DeLillo nos ha obsequiado un magnum opus que recorre cincuent Leggi tutto
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