DeLILLO, Don

DeLILLO, Don
(1936-)
   US writer who very rapidly established a reputation for brilliance and seriousness. His fourth novel, Ratner's Star (1976), subjects its sf material - it examines the personal and cognitive cruces surrounding the decipherment of a message from the star of the title - to a formidable array of contemporary intellectual procedures, while presenting its numerous characters as in-depth portraits of the fundamental obsessions at the heart of contemporary US intellectual life. The book stands as a model (a rather humbling one for GENRE SF) of the extraordinary complexity of response that any genuine message from the stars would (it is reasonable to assume) elicit. Several DD novels - like Great Jones Street (1973) and White Noise (1985) - subject their protagonists to sf-like revelations of the nature of reality through psychotopic drugs and devices; and the game of terror played in The Names (1982) smacks of OULIPO. Throughout his career, DD has been an author of FABULATIONS, the burden of which has been to expose his characters to unbearable images of the world we live in.
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   About the author: Introducing Don DeLillo (anth 1991) ed Frank Lentricchia.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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