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Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.
"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times
"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement
"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times
"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times
"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement
"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times
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Appreciation for older DeLillo titles
The Names--as well as Running Dog, Ratner's Star, and Players--is a great book, not only because it is an impressive mark in the career and development of a contemporary fiction master, but because it has its own unique plot and characters, brain-tingling themes, and the most accurate, daring, and refreshing prose. DeLillo is the perfect literary maestro, braiding his language and ideas while building characters that are believable, likable, and ultimately studies in the neuroses and joys of the human condition. The Names is a fabulous book, one to be enjoyed not only by DeLillo fans, but by all readers of contemporary fiction. Only by reading the books which came before his more recent and renowned titles can one truly appreciate what a great writer DeLillo is.
The Names--as well as Running Dog, Ratner's Star, and Players--is a great book, not only because it is an impressive mark in the career and development of a contemporary fiction master, but because it has its own unique plot and characters, brain-tingling themes, and the most accurate, daring, and refreshing prose. DeLillo is the perfect literary maestro, braiding his language and ideas while building characters that are believable, likable, and ultimately studies in the neuroses and joys of the human condition. The Names is a fabulous book, one to be enjoyed not only by DeLillo fans, but by all readers of contemporary fiction. Only by reading the books which came before his more recent and renowned titles can one truly appreciate what a great writer DeLillo is.
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The Names is indeed well-written, and a sensory delight, taking the reader on believable and quite scenic travels with an international bank executive who speaks in short, hyperintelligent sentences. The dialogue has the classic DeLillo wit and depth, and the DeLilloesque observations about the surroundings are so much better, because there are several sets of surroundings involved in this travel novel.
Unfortunately, however, I did not think it was a deep "meditation on language," as some have suggested it is. Yes, DeLillo does try hard to weave in things about language and words and meaning, and he does have some intelligent observations about self-referentiality and tautologies, but these don't seem to be very tightly integrated into the plot. It almost seems as if the "names"-oriented aspect of the book was added afterwards; the book could function just as well without all the things about names and language.
Still, this is a thrilling read, even if only as a travelogue and commentary by perhaps America's most astute social commentator. I'd recommend it to those who have read White Noise and want more DeLillo, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone wanting to just discover DeLillo. (I think White Noise or Mao II would be much better for that purpose)
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Thinking back over all the DeLillo I have read since the 1970s, I think THE NAMES is his best. I don't recall a meditation on language being enacted so deeply and compactly anywhere else. The book is one of those rare works which bears reading over and over and over again. It becomes incantatory after a while, which I think might please DeLillo.
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I had never read DeLillo before and a friend suggested that if I never read anyone else again, I should read something that Don DeLillo had written. Although The Names was not his first suggestion, the title intrigued me (yes, I judged the book by its cover) and off I went.
The Names is a book with little plot, but what it lacks in any consistant action it more than makes up in DeLillo's absolutely superb prose and insight. There are many books that I have read where the author offers a thought or an idea that rings quite familiar in my life. But this book continually presents perspectives that I had never before considered or pondered. DeLillo's ideas are fresh and his expression is invigorating. I eagerly await the experience of reading his other work.
Acquaint yourself with this author. You'll make no mistake in doing so.
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The light and language
When you travel abroad you return gratefully, happy to once again know the comfort of familiarity. That's how I felt after The Names: as if I'd returned from summer in the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
Expatriate life as ultimate dislocation, a delillo favorite
Favorite Delillo themes such as cultural dislocation and the thrill of
senseless violence are eerily embodied in a book about a divorced man
living the expatriate life... Lesen Sie weiter...
senseless violence are eerily embodied in a book about a divorced man
living the expatriate life... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Dezember 1996 veröffentlicht
Achingly beautiful prose, great wit, psychological insight
The best of DeLillo, perhaps, if you find the later novels
(White Noise through Mao II) to be a little too writ large,
a bit lacking in humor. Lesen Sie weiter...
(White Noise through Mao II) to be a little too writ large,
a bit lacking in humor. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Juli 1995 veröffentlicht
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