![]() ![]() ![]() And I don’t just mean on the question of thumbs up or down I mean that his sentences juke and weave around the best defenses, so that not only is the playing field of the past 50 years strewn with conservative critics of all stripes, but text, subtext, ultimate meanings remain elusive and the game, at least in part, now seems original to him.įor instance. And sentence by sentence, DeLillo magically slips the knot of criticism and gives his readers what Nabokov maintained was all that mattered in life and art: individual genius. I read a DeLillo novel for its sentences. I don’t read a DeLillo novel for its plot, character, setting for who betrayed whom and how hard life with Mother was for Phoenix days and Bombay nights or for how to tune a fiddle. Something feels not quite right about subjecting Don DeLillo to the ordinary critical apparatus. ![]()
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