While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.
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Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo é um escritor, dramaturgo e ensaísta norte-americano, cujo trabalho traça um retrato detalhado da vida americana no século XX. Os romances de DeLillo abordam temas tão diversos como a televisão, a guerra nuclear, os esportes, as complexidades da linguagem, arte performática, a Guerra Fria, a matemática, o advento da era digital e do terrorismo global. Foi galardoado com o National Book Award, o PEN/Faulkner Award e o Jerusalem Prize. Submundo foi finalista dos prémios Pulitzer e do National Book Award e recebeu em 2000 a Medalha Howells da American Academy of Arts and Letters pela mais eminente obra de ficção dos últimos cinco anos; em 2006, foi considerado um dos três melhores romances dos últimos vinte e cinco anos pela New York Times Book Review.
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