A world on the edge
As he notes in Underworld, he is a "dietrologist." "It means the science of what is behind something. A suspicious event. The science of what is behind an event." Not plots, but what's behind them inform his writing.Also, another book review via Chron.com:
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Much of DeLillo's work is a meditation on the equalizing tendencies of technology and mass society, and how that flattening out of culture results from a single source, our collective fear of death. Fear of death is what drives American culture, creating a culture of distraction. Television, pill-popping, and consumption are among our collectively unconscious strategies for forgetting the omnipresence of death. Sept. 11, at least for a time, rubbed our noses in the immediacy and irrationality of death. In examining its effects on a few of the survivors, DeLillo is seeking to restore our collective awareness of the fragility of life. He finds, of course, powerful opponents: Anna Nicole Smith's baby-daddy, Katie Couric's nightly ratings and Sanjaya's fate. Reading this absorbing work makes one wonder what the hell we're doing with our lives.
The Meaning of Life
Love, happiness and all that jazz: Terry Eagleton contends that finding meaning in life comes with being part of an ensemble
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