Don DeLillo, "Zero K"

Rachele Dini

Don DeLillo, "Zero K"

Rachele Dini

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Abstract

Can death be eradicated? What language might our deathless selves speak? What purpose would their lives serve? In The Value of the Novel (2015), Peter Boxall argues that the novel form is best equipped to answer such questions: “under an emerging global regime that is almost unreadable to us,” the novel in the twenty-first century “allows us to imagine and to make new worlds, to fashion new forms of accommodation between art and matter, or even to live in a condition of worldlessness.”1 The turn from historiography to futurography in Don DeLillo’s postmillennial writing can be seen to take up this speculative task, and nowhere more so than in his new book, Zero K

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of American Studies
Volume	11
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - May 2016

Keywords

Don DeLillo
posthumanism
twenty-first century
speculative fiction
literary studies

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https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11393

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