DeLillo (born in 1936) is an Italian-Catholic and lives in New York.
“A man of frightening perception”, according to Joyce Carol Oates. According to Harold Bloom, DeLillo is one of the landmarks in the art of the American novel. The influences of jazz, European films and abstract expressionism have been pointed out in his complex texts. Although the critic James Wood described his novels as overstylised and intellectually superficial, he is regarded as an iconic writer...
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“A man of frightening perception”, according to Joyce Carol Oates. According to Harold Bloom, DeLillo is one of the landmarks in the art of the American novel. The influences of jazz, European films and abstract expressionism have been pointed out in his complex texts. Although the critic James Wood described his novels as overstylised and intellectually superficial, he is regarded as an iconic writer...
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Literary scholarJoan Hambidge is a literary scholar and award-winning poet. Her new novel, Stasies, was published by Protea Boekhuis.