ENGC50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Surreal Humour, Don Delillo, Mao Ii
Document Summary
Now considered a classic american fiction writer (in comparison to the younger writers we will read) Got noticed in the 1970"s slowly - didn"t suddenly burst into the writing scene as a sensation. Very interested in pop culture - the inside of the music or sports industry. His first big novel was white noise - an academic satire. He then wrote about the jfk assassination, which was sometimes called an anti-american novel . Cosmopolis (also a film) - a story about a powerful corporate cynic who doesn"t care if he loses millions or people die. One of the concerns is the visual art in various forms - photographs, videos, paintings, photos, etc. The book is structured like how you see a visual object - the book has a prologue in yankee. Stadium, then part one and part two, and ending with a small, confined space in the epilogue.
