New Releases by Don Delillo

Um professor vive com a família numa cidadezinha americana, abandonada depois de um acidente industrial. DeLillo inspirou-se em desastres reais neste romance de estilo cirúrgico, que mimetiza o som do tráfego de uma auto-estrada. O grotesco e o absurdo na vida moderna americana. Ruído branco, o oitavo romance de DeLillo, é a história de um professor universitário que vive com a família no Meio-oeste americano, numa cidadezinha que é evacuada depois de um acidente industrial. À luz de desastres como o da Union Carbide na Índia, que matou mais de duas mil pessoas e feriu outras milhares (e que acabara de ocorrer quando o livro foi publicado), Ruído branco mantém seu sentido atual e aterrorizante. "A grande particularidade de Ruído branco é sua compreensão e percepção da trilha sonora dos Estados Unidos. O ruído branco inclui o som sempre presente do tráfego da auto-estrada, um murmúrio remoto e constante que contorna nosso sono, como almas mortas balbuciando nas margens de um sonho. Não é tanto com o caráter que DeLillo se preocupa: seu tema é basicamente a cultura, a sobrevivência e a interdependência crescente entre o eu e a comunidade nacional e mundial. O homem viril diante dos elementos, o fora-da- lei, o super-herói, existem no mundo moderno apenas como mitos; somos os elementos da natureza, um povo tecnologicamente orientado que nem por isso deixa de estar preso na peneira da história. No que DeLillo escreve existe o suspense e uma inteligência que questiona, um sentido simultâneo do círculo que se amplia e da malha fina da rede." - The New York Times Book Review

Den 3. oktober 1951 sidder Toots Shor, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra og J. Edgar Hoover i en af New York Polo Grounds loger for at overvære mesterskabsopgøret mellem Brooklyn Dodgers’ og New York Giants’. Mens Hoover får besked om, at russerne har foretaget en atomprøvesprængning, afgøres kampen ved Bobby Thomsons legendariske home run – "slaget, der gav genlyd jorden rundt", og Giants vinder mesterskabet. I "Underverden" kortlægger Don DeLillo verden i årene efter disse begivenheder, de 40 år der blev kaldt Den Kolde Krig. Med sin fokusering på både den officielle politiske historie og på individet skæbne i historiens underverden er romanen en fortælling om hverdagslivets betingelser i skyggen af den offentlige paranoia. ""Underverden" er en fremragende bog af en amerikansk mester." – Salman Rushdie Don DeLillo (f. 1936) er født i New York og er en af de mest anerkendte nulevende amerikanske forfattere. Han debuterede i 1971 med romanen "Americana" og har sidenhen været en fundamental del af den postmoderne litteratur. Forfattere som Brett Easton Ellis og David Foster Wallace er begge blevet inspireret af Don DeLillos værker.

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.

El padre de Jeffrey Lockhart, Ross, es el inversionista principal de un centro donde se lucha contra la muerte congelando los cuerpos hasta que la tecnología pueda despertarlos. Hasta ese extraño lugar viaja Jeffrey para consolar a su padre cuando va a despedirse de su esposa enferma con la esperanza de reencontrarla en el futuro. Pero cuando Ross, en perfecto estado de salud, decide acompañarla en el experimento, Jeffrey le niega su apoyo y se rebela. Una oda al lenguaje, una profunda meditación sobre la muerte y una aguda observación sobre lo que implica estar vivo.

A New York Times Notable Book and New York Times bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld” (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body. “We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn’t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?” These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.” Don DeLillo’s “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) new novel weighs the darkness of the world—terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague—against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, “the intimate touch of earth and sun.” “One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career” (The New York Times Book Review), Zero K is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.

Den före detta tv-mannen David Bell försöker sig på en ny karriär som dokumentärfilmare. Men vad som är tänkt att handla om Navajo-indianer blir ett bisarrt försök till en »mystisk och helig« självbiografi. Denna tar honom på en roadtrip genom USA, på jakt efter något autentiskt att säga om sitt liv och om världen. Människorna i Don DeLillos debutroman Amerikana [1971] famlar i en labyrint av kollapsande institutioner, som historiens, den kapitalistiska ekonomins, språkets och könets lögner. Redan här går hans geniala satir över människan i masskulturens era för full maskin. Amerikana presenteras här för första gången på svenska, i översättning av Caj Lundgren. DON DELILLO [f. 1936] är en av USA:s viktigaste författare under de senaste femtio åren. Flera gånger har han tilldelats The American Book Award. Bland internationella priser kan nämnas det prestigefyllda Jerusalempriset, som han som förste amerikan erhöll 1999, och han omnämns ofta som Nobelpriskandidat. Don DeLillo är numera bosatt i sin födelsestad New York. »Amerikana består nästan enbart av klockrena meningar, och liksom insisterar på en autenticitet bakom alla stereotyper. DeLillo är en man med en skrämmande iakttagelseförmåga.« JOYCE CAROL OATES »DeLillo är en författare som, när man väl läst honom, får en att vilja läsa allt han skrivit.« MARTIN AMIS, THE SUNDAY TIMES »Fyndigt, smart och skarpsynt... en magnifikt genomförd historia.« TIME OUT

El ángel Esmeralda reúne, por primera vez en español, los cuentos completos de Don DeLillo, en la edición establecida por el propio autor. Escritos entre 1979 y 2011, estos nueve relatos descubren una faceta poco conocida de este coloso de las letras estadounidenses, y demuestran una vez más que ±nadie escribe mejor que Don DeLillo» (Paul Auster).-- La clarividente maestría de DeLillo vibra en cada una de estas páginas: en la pieza que da título al volumen, dos monjas que trabajan en las violentas calles del sur del Bronx confirman un milagro, la aparición de una niña muerta, Esmeralda. En ±Creación», una pareja termina un crucero en una isla del Caribe y no puede salir de ella: vuelos cancelados, falta de dinero, reservas sin confirmar... ±Momentos humanos de la Tercera Guerra Mundial» describe cómo dos astronautas en órbita alrededor de la Tierra escuchan voces procedentes de una radio estadounidense de hace cincuenta años.

Jack Gladney, un profesor universitario especializado en estudios sobre Hitler, vive en una pequeña ciudad americana con Babette, su cuarta esposa, y los hijos que ambos han tenido de anteriores matrimonios. Marcados por el consumismo y el miedo a la muerte, los Gladney tratan de llevar una vida familiar tranquila cuando un terrible accidente industrial provoca un «escape tóxico a la atmósfera», una nube de gases letales que amenaza su ciudad. Don DeLillo capta toda la extrañeza de la existencia humana en el mundo contemporáneo. La nube tóxica es una versión más visible y apremiante de ese ruido de fondo que rodea a los Gladney y a todos nosotros: el murmullo incesante de la televisión, las transmisiones de radio, las sirenas, las ondas ultrasónicas y electrónicas, todas esas señales omnipresentes que nos hechizan y nos paralizan. En palabras de DeLillo: «Una historia sobre el miedo, la muerte y la tecnología. Una comedia, por supuesto.» Ganadora del National Book Award en 1985, Ruido de fondo es un clásico de la novela americana y, junto a Submundo, la obra más representativa de uno de los más aclamados narradores contemporáneos. De ella se ha dicho: «Una de las obras más divertidas de Don DeLillo... Escalofriante, brillante y conmovedora», The New York Times; «La novela más audaz y original de los últimos tiempos», Chicago Tribune; «Una obra sensacional de uno de nuestros novelistas más inteligentes», The New Republic.

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

"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo''s first novels, Ratner''s Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner''s Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo''s later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times

DeLillo''s Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to "star" Adolph Hitler leads to trickery, maneuvering, and bloodshed. With streamlined prose and a thriller''s narrative pace, Running Dog is a bright star in the modern master''s early career.

I Vågen kombinerar Don DeLillo fakta, hypoteser och fiktion till en mångfacetterad skildring av de händelser som ledde fram till mordet på John F. Kennedy den 22 november 1963. Berättelsen som vävs fram - lika skrämmande som den är fängslande - följer Lee Harvey Oswalds väg från de problemfyllda tonåren till den instabile unge man som söker efter en roll åt sig själv i historien. När »historien« dyker upp i form av tre baksluga CIA-agenter tippar vågskålen ohjälpligt över och Oswald är fången i händelser långt bortom hans kontroll. DON DELILLO [1936-] är en USA:s mest hyllade nu levande författare. Han debuterade 1971 med romanen Americana och fick sitt stora genombrott 1985 med White Noise [Vitt brus, 1986]. Liksom Underworld från 1997 [Under jord, 2001] räknas Vågen till de största amerikanska romanerna i modern tid. »En skrämmande och fascinerande rekonstruktion av århundradets mord, och samtidigt en roman som fungerar som en thriller... en mästerligt subtil mosaik av röster som har tänkvärda saker att säga om våldet och ödsligheten i vår tid.« SVENSKA DAGBLADET »En fullt medveten blandning av fakta, myt och dikt... skriven av Don DeLillo, en av USA:s bästa författare.« SYDSVENSKA DAGBLADET »Vad DeLillo framför allt lyckas förmedla, eller suggegera fram, är den samhälleliga miljö i vilken spväl den konspiratoriska fantasin som den politiska paranoian får sin näring.« EXPRESSEN »En skakande resa in i USA:s hjärta.« THE OBSERVER

From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American life Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human Moments in World War III,” two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.

Ein junger Filmemacher sucht einen ehemaligen geheimen Kriegsberater der amerikanischen Regierung in dessen Haus irgendwo in der kalifornischen Wüste auf. Er hofft, ihn für eine Dokumentation gewinnen zu können. Als die Tochter des älteren Mannes auftaucht, nimmt die Geschichte einen verhängnisvollen Lauf. Im MoMa in New York betrachtet ein Mann eine Installation: Hitchcocks "Psycho", verlangsamt auf eine Spielzeit von 24 Stunden. Und er betrachtet zwei Männer, einen älteren, einen jüngeren, die sich die Installation anschauen. Schnitt. Mitten in der Wüste, "südlich von Nirgendwo", lebt der dreiundsiebzigjährige Richard Elster in einem einsam gelegenen Haus. Hierher hat er sich zurückgezogen, um über Raum und Zeit nachzudenken. Elster, ein Gelehrter, der sich jahrelang mit dem Thema Auslöschung in all seinen Varianten beschäftigt hat, diente der amerikanischen Regierung während des Irakkriegs zwei Jahre lang als geheimer Berater, er sollte ihre Kriegshandlungen mit einem intellektuellen Referenzrahmen versehen. Als seine Dienste nicht mehr gebraucht werden, zieht er sich in die Wüste zurück. Dort besucht ihn Jim Finley, ein junger Filmemacher, der Elster von seinem Filmprojekt überzeugen möchte: eine Dokumentation ganz ohne Schnitt, nur eine einzige Einstellung: ein Mann - Elster - vor einer Wand. Keine Fragen aus dem Off, keine Regieanweisung. Zwölf Tage schon diskutieren die beiden Männer, als Elsters Tochter Jessie auftaucht, eine junge Frau aus New York, die die Dynamik der ganzen Geschichte grundlegend verändert. Etwas Unfassbares geschieht, und alles Gesagte wird in Frage gestellt.

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he''d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.

Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended. It is their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move unsteadily toward last things. Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it. --Publisher.

A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld. Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. In The Body Artist his spare, seductive twelfth novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception. The Body Artist is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.

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.

Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town. Reprint.

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 - J. 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. Don DeLillo est l'un des chefs de file de la littérature américaine et son œuvre lui a valu une réputation internationale. Il a obtenu le National Book Award et le PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction et il est membre de l'American Academy of Arts and Letters. Du même auteur, Actes Sud a déjà publié Les Noms (1990), Chien galeux (1991 et Babel n°84), Americana (1992), Mao II (1992), Joueurs (1993) et L'Etoile de Ratner (1996). Outremonde, qui a connu aux Etats-Unis un immense succès et qui est traduit dans de nombreuses langues, est son onzième roman.

Aus dem amerik. von Frank Heibert.

From the author of the National Book Award–winning White Noise comes a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) A thought-provoking exploration of the alluring yet hollow world of rock and roll stardom. Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. Unfulfilled by the excess of fame and fortune his revolutionary image has wrought, he bolds from his band mid-tour to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment, where he breaks away from his manufactured persona and separates himself from the toxic and superficial culture he has helped create. As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape. Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street is a penetrating look at rock and roll’s merger of art, commerce, and urban decay through a vivid portrait of a troubled rock star’s search for meaning beyond the glitz and glamor.

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Award–winning author of White Noise, “one of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America” (The New York Times) “This novel’s a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.”—Thomas Pynchon Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, his dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott’s lover—and Bill’s. An extraordinary novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

From the author of the National Book Award-winning novel White Noise comes an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.

In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. "The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo''s art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions."--New York Times Book Review