Silence - BookWyrm.de

Sprache: English

Am 2021 von Pan Macmillan veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-1-5290-5710-2

Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace. 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 after 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 dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human. Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world. Never have DeLillo's …

Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace. 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 after 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 dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human. Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world. Never have DeLillo's prescience, imagination and language been more illuminating and essential. --

1 Auflage

Paranoid Fish hat Silence von Don DeLillo besprochen

better the second time around

4 Sterne

I don't really know what to make of this book. Firstly, it's very short, which made it difficult for me to really get into it. Secondly, the dialogue is quite scarce, so the characterization of the protagonists is rather sketchy. Even the plot is very bare and while you wonder what's going on, the main theme is rather how people react to the crisis, what they say, what they do, than about what caused the crisis. I can't say I didn't like it, and I liked it much better after a second read, but compared to the other novels by Don DeLillo that I've read, it's different. So if you want to get to know this author, I'd rather recommend "White Noise" or, if you're feeling brave, the monumental "Underworld".

Paranoid Fish hat Silence von Don DeLillo besprochen

better the second time around

4 Sterne

I don't really know what to make of this book. Firstly, it's very short, which made it difficult for me to really get into it. Secondly, the dialogue is quite scarce, so the characterization of the protagonists is rather sketchy. Even the plot is very bare and while you wonder what's going on, the main theme is rather how people react to the crisis, what they say, what they do, than about what caused the crisis. I can't say I didn't like it, and I liked it much better after a second read, but compared to the other novels by Don DeLillo that I've read, it's different. So if you want to get to know this author, I'd rather recommend "White Noise" or, if you're feeling brave, the monumental "Underworld".

Themen

Fiction, dystopian
New york (n.y.), fiction
American fiction (fictional works by one author)