Don DeLillo Ordre des livres (chronologique)

This first volume in the Library of America Don DeLillo edition features three essential novels from the 1980s, each accompanied by new prefaces from the author. In The Names (1982), DeLillo's breakthrough work, James Axton, a risk analyst, investigates ritual murders linked to a cult fascinated by ancient languages, leading to profound reflections on identity, disconnection, and language. White Noise (1985), a blend of campus satire and midlife character study, presents a darkly humorous portrayal of postmodern America, where brand names infiltrate daily life and individuals are reduced to their data. Libra (1988) serves as a counter-history of the JFK assassination, offering a nuanced view of Lee Harvey Oswald and exploring the complexities of historical narratives. DeLillo notes that the novel, while rooted in history, also seeks to clarify and balance it. The volume includes two rare essays: "American Blood," a 1983 Rolling Stone article addressing the JFK assassination and its surrounding speculation, and "Silhouette City," which examines extremist right-wing groups and the rise of neo-Nazism in the U.S. Together, these works showcase DeLillo's incisive exploration of contemporary themes.

Le monde en état d'exception – Le nouveau roman de Don DeLillo explore des thèmes d'une actualité troublante. À New York, en 2022, cinq personnes se réunissent dans un appartement de l'East Side pour regarder le Super Bowl. Une professeure de physique à la retraite, son mari et un ancien étudiant attendent un couple d'amis revenant de Paris. Leurs conversations portent sur la théorie de la relativité d'Einstein, un télescope de surveillance au Chili et une marque de bourbon particulière. Soudain, toutes les connexions numériques sont interrompues – les écrans deviennent noirs. L'arrivée des amis, marquée par un vol dramatique, suscite étonnement et choc. Ensemble, ils tentent de comprendre cet événement mystérieux et angoissant. Ils plongent profondément dans la nature du temps et l'essence de l'existence humaine. L'œuvre perspicace de DeLillo reflète de manière troublante la situation mondiale actuelle. Sa langue raffinée et son sens sismographique en font une œuvre littéraire incomparable.

'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuitions, prayers, out of the deepest levels of the self.' A troubled adolescent endlessly riding New York's subway cars, Lee Harvey Oswald enters adulthood believing himself to be an agent of history. This makes him fair game to a pair of discontented CIA operatives convinced that a failed attempt on the life of the US president will force the nation to tackle the threat of communism head on. Libra is a gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, laying bare the wounded American psyche and the dark events that still torment it. 'An audacious blend of fiction and fact' The Times

Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a secret compound where death is controlled until new technologies will offer to return the patients to life. Jeffrey grapples with Artis's choice to enter the compound, instead of embracing the life she has left.

This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unconscious, longings; they are subjected to shocking violations, exposed to unexpected acts of terror. No matter whether he is focused upon the slums of New York or astronauts in orbit around the Earth, DeLillo chooses never to turn away from the unsettling manner in which humans are brought together. These nine stories describe the extraordinary journey of a great American writer who changed the literary landscape. 'Don DeLillo's richly compressed short stories are the work of a true master . . . In these stories or lucid dreams - sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed - DeLillo himself isolates that stray thought, and makes of it great art.' Guardian

In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls "prophetic about twenty-first-century America" looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. Richard Elster is at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster's daughter Jessica—an "otherworldly" woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he’d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.

Un giovanissimo miliardario vive in un attico su tre piani, colleziona quadri e squali, ha una moglie di prestigio e patrimonio adeguati. Una splendida mattina, spinto da una strana inquietudine, sale in limousine e dice all'autista di portarlo dall'altra parte di Manhattan, nel West Side per "tagliarsi i capelli". Inizia così un viaggio che è una metafora, un attraversamento da est a ovest del cuore del mondo in una sola giornata, un percorso alla ricerca della proprie radici e della morte.

Alex Hauser left New York and gave up easel painting to live and create land art in the southwestern desert. Now seventy, he has had his second massive stroke. His young third wife Lia believes that somewhere deep inside his mind is still alive, but Alex’s ex-wife and son, Toinette and Sean, have come to this remote place to help him die. Scarlet four o’clock, terminal sedation, night blooming cereus, respiratory depression, sacred datura, persistent vegetative state, love-lies-bleeding, life long devotion: the names of desert flowers and the language of death are equally potent and mysterious in this haunting and urgent play. Like Wit and Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores the perilous question of when life ends—or should. It is also a play about a son looking for the father who abandoned him, and it is about the odd emotional tenacity of relationships long-ended, about shared language as the antidote to loss. Praise for Don DeLillo’s previous play, Valparaiso: 'May be the novelist’s most satisfying work since White Noise . . . Valparaiso is art at its finest' Boston Globe 'Indisputably electric . . . fresh and pertinent' New York Times

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn’t know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, his world begins to fall apart. But more worrying than the loss of his fortune is the realization that his life may be under threat. ‘A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture’ Sunday Times ‘One of America’s smartest and most disturbing writers’ The Times

A vingt ans, David Bell a épousé une "pin-up" de bonne famille, et entamé dans l'audiovisuel une carrière qui l'a vite propulsé au sommet. Puis, déçu par le mirage de l'american way of life, il divorce et quitte son emploi. Il choisit alors de revivre un autre mythe américain, celui de la conquête de l'Ouest. Son errance le met en contact avec des personnages victimes d'une certaine délitescence sociale : une artiste déjantée, un alcoolique entouré d'animaux, un vétéran du Vietnam... De l'establishment au vagabondage, l'auteur de Chiens galeux nous plonge ici dans les arcanes d'un pays-continent et d'une société en perpétuel mouvement. Il s'impose, aux côtés d'un Paul Auster ou d'un T.C. Boyle, comme l'un des meilleurs écrivains de cette jeune génération qui a entrepris de radiographier l'Amérique d'aujourd'hui.

"There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." -- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher's box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra's celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game -- the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.

A ghost story that opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the New England coast. It lets us meet Lauren Hartke, the Body Artist, and her husband Rey Robles, a much older, thrice-married film-director.

Michael Majeski finds himself in a surprising situation when he thinks he is flying to Valparaiso, Indiana. Through a series of mix-ups, Michael finds himself first flying to Valparaiso, Florida and then eventually lands in Valparaiso, Chile. Even more unexpected is the media onslaught that follows. He finds himself pursued by every kind of interviewer and the object of fascination for the American audience. As his fame grows, Michael's personal life begins to erode. He and his wife Livia struggle to keep their marriage and their lives intact despite the growing intensity of the media spotlight. Ultimately, Michael must choose between his sanity and his celebrity

A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times.

Het leven in de Verenigde Staten sedert 1951 zoals weerspiegeld in de lotgevallen van een groot aantal fictieve personages en historische figuren als Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover en Lenny Bruce.

A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, "this is DeLillo's most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

"Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover - and Bill's. An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers." -- Publisher's description.

"David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future. Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first novel."

Les personnages de ce roman sont des Américains, employés par des multinationales qui essaiment dans les régions les plus névralgiques du globe. Entre aéroports et cités millénaires, ils apprennent à côtoyer la menace du terrorisme des années 1970. L'un de ces nouveaux nomades, entraîné par sa fascination pour une secte criminelle et par sa passion pour la mystique du langage, se livre à une périlleuse enquête qui donne peu à peu un double spectacle : celui de l'Amérique cherchant à s'expliquer le monde, et celui du monde apparaissant, à travers pérégrinations et péripéties, comme une tentative d'explication de l'Amérique. Avec Les Noms, publié en 1982 aux Etats-Unis, Don DeLillo imposait son impressionnante puissance visionnaire et signait un grand roman politique paranoïaque et labyrinthique.

Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space. By the author of Libra.

A fictional speculation on the assassination of John F Kennedy. It chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history.

At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among some of the players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war—the language of end zones—become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. In this triumphantly funny novel, Don DeLillo explores the the borders of organized violence.

In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation which leads both of them into separate but equally fatal adventures. And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • An “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (The New York Times) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology. “Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.”—The New Republic The inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in “American magic and dread.” Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an “airborne toxic event” unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladney family—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.

"Il existe un film. Pellicule intacte. Un seul exemplaire. L’original de la caméra. Pris à Berlin, en avril, en l’an 1945". Dès lors que sa possible présence à New York est évoquée, ce film pornographique, dont le héros – selon la rumeur – serait le Führer lui-même, devient l’objet d’une quête effrénée. Les chiens galeux – un antiquaire spécialisé, un sénateur aux collections très particulières, un "industriel" du porno, trois dangereux vétérans du Viêt-nam – se mettent en chasse. Don DeLillo, en maître du thriller politique et en observateur acéré de l’envers d’une certaine Amérique, raconte alors les manipulations scabreuses, les affaires véreuses et les malversations de toute nature, dénonçant avec violence les réseaux et les pouvoirs cachés dans un monde où l’image a pris en otage le réel.