Certain Words in Uncertain Times

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J. Ashbery, Don Delillo, W. Gibson and Amos Oz

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   Four great authors bringing their unique view on our time and his near future, but knowing in their heart, that the evolving events recorded in their books are a minority in front of the overwhelming number of unknown events altering in this very moment the content of their writing.  

                                                   The Falling Men

John Ashbery.   An 80-Year-Old Poet for the MTV Generation ( August 27, 2007).     “MTVU, the subsidiary of MTV Networks that is broadcast only on college campuses, will announce today that it has selected its first poet laureate. No, he doesn’t rap. And it’s not Bob Dylan, or even Justin Timberlake. It is John Ashbery, the prolific 80-year-old poet and frequent award winner known for his dense, postmodern style and playful language”. See here and here.

Don Delillo. ( May 27, 2007)  A new novel, “The Falling Men”.  ….”In his new novel, Don DeLillo shoves us back into the day itself in his first sentence: “It was not a street anymore but a world, a time and space of falling ash and near night.”……”Keith must descend back into the hell of 9/11 if DeLillo is to provide the counternarrative to terrorism he promised, the story that takes us beyond the hard, anonymous numbers of the dead to retrieve what he called in Harper’s “human beauty in the crush of meshed steel.”.. see here

William Gibson. (2007)   Dark new World. In a time gripped by terrorism, a young newsman goes hunting. a new novel, “Spook Country”.…”Spook Country is less a conventional thriller than a devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist, and it bears comparison to the best work of Don DeLillo. See here and here … “Like Pattern Recognition before it, William Gibson’s eighth novel, Spook Country , feels like dictation from the zeitgeist. Its “illegal facilitators,” nonexistent magazines, terrorists, pirates, junkies, mad art dealers, and WMD are all woven together into something more unsettling and blackly comic”. See here.

Amos Oz.(2007)  A new novel, “Rhyming of Life and Death”.   The Israeli author in his new novel asks “Why do I write and for whom?”. His question has no clear cut answer and is perhaps an illustration of his own feeling that “Why and for whom” is also directed against himself. ( the book is in translation, in Hebrew it is here ).

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