Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film.

Point Omega

Biographical noteThe author of thirteen novels, five plays, and numerous short stories, Don DeLillo was born in 1936. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, and Underworld (1997), with its vivid portraits of actor Jackie Gleason and standup comedian Lenny Bruce. Main descriptionHis first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel... Don DeLillo (b.1936) was born and raised in New York City. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, Underworld (1997), hailed by Martin Amis as 'the ascension of a great writer', Cosmopolis (2003), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, due to be released later this year, and Falling Man (2007), a novel about the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. If you enjoyed Americana, you might like DeLillo's Libra, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'He's a writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he's done'Martin Amis, Sunday Times 'Witty, clever and incisive ... a marvellously realized plot'Time Out 'Nearly every sentence of Americana rings true ... DeLillo is a man of frightening perception'Joyce Carol Oates

Americana

Un homme, Michael Majeski, part de chez lui pour un voyage d'affaires à Valparaiso dans l'Indiana. Par une série d'erreurs (conscientes ?), il se retrouve à Valparaiso au Chili, héros de pacotille d'un périple qui est en réalité une quête de soi. Cette recherche, il ne se trouve capable de la faire que dans un étalement au grand jour, par le biais de tous les médias possibles, de sa vie privée et de son histoire la plus intime.

Valparaiso

New York, avril 2000. Bloqué dans sa somptueuse limousine par un embouteillage géant qui paralyse Manhattan, Eric Packer, golden boy de vingt-huit ans, assiste au crépuscule du système qui a porté sa compagnie au firmament de la galaxie Wall Street. Les yeux rivés sur les cours d'une monnaie dont il a parié la chute et qui remonte contre toute attente, tétanisé par l'irruption dans son monde virtuel d'un réel ensauvagé qui embrase les rues de la ville, Packer accède, en vingt-quatre heures d'une initiation spectaculaire, aux codes qui détiennent le secret de son assassinat annoncé. Concentrant dans un espace littéraire superbement inédit tous les langages où se profère l'inquiétant scénario global du monde contemporain, Cosmopolis fait du présent une fable, du futur une histoire et de l'archaïque, peut-être, notre étrange avenir.

Cosmopolis

De la chronique des vies ordinaires prises dans l'étau de la guerre froide à la grande - et petite - histoire de la bombe atomique, du légendaire match de base-ball disputé à New York en 1951 à l'épilogue crépusculaire en Asie centrale, Outremonde couvre le dernier demi-siècle de l'histoire américaine. Sur l'immense scène du roman, dans un foisonnement d'intrigues, certaines des figures qui ont marqué cette période - John Edgar Hoover, Frank Sinatra, entre autres - croisent et recroisent les personnages de la fiction. Leurs voix, mêlées, construisent une polyphonie que DeLillo dirige et organise jusque dans ses plus subtiles modulations. Fondant au creuset de son écriture le tout-venant de notre monde, les rebuts de son histoire industrielle comme les errements de son histoire politique, DeLillo fait surgir une éblouissante œuvre d'art, l'autre côté, obscur et souterrain, de l'humanité contemporaine.

Outremonde

Falling Man - Ab 11. Schuljahr. Textband mit Annotationen

Now a major new Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta GerwigHow strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us?Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a train carriage releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality. White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo exposes our rampant consumerism, media saturation and novelty intellectualism. It captures the particular strangeness of life lived when the fear of death cannot be denied, repressed or obscured and ponders the role of the family in a time when the very meaning of our existence is under threat.'America's greatest living writer.' - ObserverPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

White Noise

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target .

Le 11 septembre 2001, Keith, revenu d'entre les morts, masqué de cendres et criblé d'éclats de verre, tient mécaniquement une mallette retrouvée dans les décombres. Parti en quête de sa propriétaire, Keith se rapproche d'une femme rencontrée dans l'enfer des tours, mais, désormais convaincu que tout est voué à disparaître, se laisse entraîner dans une spirale destructrice qui le mène aux portes des casinos. A l'image de l'Homme qui Tombe, ce mystérieux équilibriste qui règne sur les gratte-ciel de Manhattan, la vie de Keith ne tient plus qu'à un fil.

Point Omega

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