En nous lançant aux trousses de David Bell, l'inquiet et séduisant narrateur du roman, Don DeLillo nous entraîne dans les arcanes d'une société où l'on bascule facilement du confort de l'establishment au vagabondage, sous l'influence de mythes, fantasmes et obsessions auxquels se raccrochent les personnages irrésistibles qui peuplent cette aventure. Premier roman de l'écrivain reconnu qu'est aujourd'hui Don DeLillo, Americana apporte une nouvelle preuve que l'Amérique est encore et toujours à découvrir.

Americana

Moll Robbins is a journalist in a rut. But she gets wind of a very exciting story: it concerns a small piece of celluloid, a pornographic film purportedly shot in a bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall - with Hitler as its star. One person claims to have access to this unique piece of Naziana; inevitably, more than one want it. Unfortunately for Moll, in the black-market world of erotica, the currency is blackmail, torture and corruption; and no price is too high. As the paranoia builds and the combatants lose sight of their motives, their souls, even the object itself, Don DeLillo reveals the terrible truth behind our acquisitiveness in Running Dog - a masterful thriller from an award-winning novelist.

Running Dog

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

À l'université de Logos, au Texas, d'immenses gaillards équipés d'épaulières rembourrées et de casques rutilants jouent au football américain avec passion. Au cours d'une saison sans précédent où ils enchaînent les victoires, leur running back, un garçon brillant du nom de Gary Harkness, développe peur et fascination pour le conflit nucléaire. Parmi les joueurs, les terminologies du football et de la guerre atomique deviennent interchangeables et leur sens se détériore au fil de l'année universitaire. De discussions de dortoir en balades méta--physiques dans le désert, cette comédie noire explore le rapport qu'entretiennent les hommes avec le conflit à travers des pages d'une beauté mémorable.

End Zone

Un film pornographique, réalisé en avril 1945 à Berlin et dont le héros - selon la rumeur - serait le Führer lui-même, devient à New York l'objet d'une quête effrénée.

Chien galeux

Le premier roman de Don Delillo met en scène un de ces personnages typiquement américains dont le destin devient la métaphore d'une époque : David Bell, promis à une brillante carrière, achève un erratique parcours dans la solitude la plus absolue.

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism, and ancient languages. Evocative, complex and beguiling, The Names is another major work from one of the 20th century's great prose stylists. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Americana

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