The volume is a commentary on Don DeLillo’s hypertrophic novel Underworld (1997). Starting from the analysis of the text – which intertwines several plots, locations and point of view –, Nicola Turi retraces the entire production of the author to follow the evolution of themes (paranoia, nuclear threat, alienation, violence…) and textual strategies. At the same times he considers some widespread trends in the contemporary novel which Underworld, narrative tableau of the United States of the second twentieth century, embodies or anticipates: the resumption of the collective novel; the construction of characters drawn from reality; the continuous interaction between verbal representation and image (both static and moving).
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Book Title
A partire da «Underworld»
Book Subtitle
Don DeLillo e il romanzo del terzo Novecento
Authors
Nicola Turi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
142
Publication Year
2020
Copyright Information
© 2020 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-269-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-268-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-269-0
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-270-6
Series Title
Moderna/Comparata
Series ISSN
2704-5641
Series E-ISSN
2704-565X