![]() ![]() This term describes 'fiction that is at once metafictional and historical in its echoes of the texts and contexts of the past. The novel blends historical fact with fictional supposition. GNOSTICISM IN DON DELILLOS LIBRA Graley Herren In the mid-1980s influential literary critic Linda Hutcheon coined the term 'historiographie metafiction' to describe a hallmark feature of post modern fiction. He currently lives outside of New York City.Īmong the most influential American writers of the past decades, DeLillo has received, among author awards, a National Book Award ( White Noise, 1985), a PEN/Faulkner Award ( Mao II, 1991), and an American Book Award ( Underworld, 1998).ĭeLillo's sixteenth novel, Point Omega, was published in February, 2010. Libra is a 1988 novel by Don DeLillo that describes the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and his participation in a fictional CIA conspiracy to assassinate President John F. 15, 1988 DeLillo's fascination with conspiracy, apocalypse, and public eventstesselated from a hundred chips of separate, small human miseryturns to the Kennedy assassination almost inevitably. Don DeLillo is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. DeLillo's sixteenth novel, Point Omega, was published in February, 2010. ![]() ![]() Among the most influential American writers of the past decades, DeLillo has received, among author awards, a National Book Award ( White Noise, 1985), a PEN/Faulkner Award ( Mao II, 1991), and an American Book Award ( Underworld, 1998). He currently lives outside of New York City. ![]()
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