Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo (20.11. 1936.-) je američki pisac najpoznatuiji po romanima koji daju detaljnu sliku života u Americi krajem 20. i na početku 21. vijeka. Trenutno živi u okolici New Yorka.

Don DeLillo
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	20. 11. 1936. (1936-11-20) New York
Nacionalnost	SAD
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	romanopisac
Inspiracija
Od Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Malcolm Lowry, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett
Na Bret Easton Ellis, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Chris Bachelder

Biografija

Don DeLillo se rodio u Bronxu kao dijete italijanskih imigranata. Pisanjem se nije bavio sve dok nije upisao Univerzitet Fordham, a preko ljeta počeo raditi kao čuvar parkirališta. Pisanje mu je bio jedini način da prekrati dosadu, a nakon diplome je radio u reklamnoj agenciji.

Svoj prvi roman pod nazivom Americana je objavio 1971. godine. Četiri godine kasnije se oženio za Barbaru Bennett, dizajnericu dvorišta. S njom je neko vrijeme živio u Grčkoj. Široj je javnosti postao poznat hvaljenim romanom White Noise, a godine 1997. mu je izašao Underworld koji se smatra njegovim najpoznatijim djelom. Njegov posljednji roman, Falling Man, posvećen je napadima 11. septembra.

Djela

Romani

• Americana (1971)
• End Zone (1972)
• Great Jones Street (1973)
• Ratner's Star (1976)
• Players (1977)
• Running Dog (1978)
• Amazons (1980) (under pseudonym "Cleo Birdwell")
• The Names (1982)
• White Noise (1985)
• Libra (1988)
• Mao II (1991)
• Underworld (1997) (v. također Pafko at the Wall, Underworlda koji je zasebno izdan godine 2001.)
• The Body Artist (2001)
• Cosmopolis (2003)
• Falling Man (2007)

Drame

• The Day Room (praizvedba 1986)
• Valparaiso (praizvedba 1999)
• Love-Lies-Bleeding (praizvedba 2005)
• The Word for Snow (praizvedba 2007)

Scenariji

• Game 6 (2005)

Game 6, priča o dramatičaru (igra ga Michael Keaton) i njegovoj opsesiji s Boston Red Soxima i World Seriesom 1986. godine, napisana je ranih 1990-ih, ali je izvedena tek 2005, točno godinu dana kada su Red Sox osvojili prvu titulu World Seriesa u 86 godina. To je dosada jedina ekranizacija nekog DeLillovog djela.

Knjige o DeLillou

• Bloom, Harold (ur.), Don DeLillo (Bloom's Major Novelists), Chelsea House, 2003.
• Boxall, Peter, Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction, Routledge, 2006.
• Civello, Paul, American Literary Naturalism and its Twentieth-century Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, University of Georgia Press, 1994.
• Cowart, David, Don DeLillo - The Physics of Language, University of Georgia Press, 2002.
• Dewey, Joseph, Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo, University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
• Dewey, Joseph (ur.), Kellman, Steven G. (ed.), Malin, Irving (ed.), Underwords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld, University of Delaware Press, 2002.
• Duvall, John, Don DeLillo's Underworld: A Reader's Guide, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002.
• Engles, Tim (ur.), Duvall, John (ur.) ,Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise, Modern Language Association Press, 2006.
• Halldorson, Stephanie, The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo, 2007.
• Hantke, Steffen, Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary American Fiction: The works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy, Peter Lang Publishing, 1994.
• Kavadlo, Jesse, Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief, Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.
• Keesey, Douglas, Don DeLillo, Macmillan, 1993.
• LeClair, Tom In the Loop - Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, University of Illinois Press, 1987.
• Lentricchia, Frank (ur.), Introducing Don DeLillo, Duke University Press, 1991.
• Lentricchia, Frank (ur.), New Essays on White Noise, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Orr, Leonard, White Noise: A Reader's Guide Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003.
• Osteen, Mark American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
• Ruppersburg, Hugh (ur.), Engles, Tim (ur.), Critical Essays on Don DeLillo, G.K. Hall, 2000.
• Weinstein, Arnold, Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction From Hawthorne to DeLillo, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Vanjske veze

• Author interview in Guernica Magazine (guernicamag.com)
• Extensive DeLillo bibliography
• Don DeLillo papers Arhivirano 2007-09-18 na Wayback Machine-u archived at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
• The New Yorker magazine discussion on the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in which Mr. DeLillo discusses writing.
• Literary Encyclopedia Biography
• Don DeLillo Society
• Don DeLillo's America - Comprehensive page with a biography, reviews, works, interviews, and literary criticism (and the Bibliography above).

Don DeLillo na Wikimedijinoj ostavi