Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo¿s America av Prof Michael (DePaul University USA) Naas

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<i>Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo¿s America</i> is a fresh and engaging study of ¿last things¿ in Don DeLillo¿s works¿things like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire, but then also the apocalypse, the last judgment, and the end of the world more generally. Michael Naas untangles complex themes in short, witty chapters that highlight and celebrate DeLillo¿s inventive and playful writing, employing a novel approach to literary criticism. Making no use of secondary sources, the book is entirely a discussion of DeLillo''s work, accessible to any level of readership while maintaining a firm grasp of the theory necessary to make this unique argument.And yet, this book is also about all the things that double or shadow those last things in the very same works, like the wonder of language or the radiance of everyday events. From <i>Americana</i> (1971) up through <i>Zero K</i> (2016) and <i>The Silence</i> (2020), and perhaps like no other American auth