TY - JOUR
AU - Grivina, Viktoriia
AB - 286 REVIEWS poets claim to herald an organically cohesive society whose imminent arrival must be intuited yet the details of which cannot be known. [https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae027] David Evans, University of St Andrews NAAS, MICHAEL. Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 243 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978–1–5013–9068–5 [paperback]. This monograph is a sequel to Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica and Other Literary Contraband (Bloomsbury, 2020). Naas continues his comprehensive study of DeLillo’s texts, presenting an illustrative example of close reading. The volume is dedicated to the theme of ‘last things’ (p. xi), apocalypse, dying and decay. Long quotations followed by detailed analysis make Apocalyptic Ruin a helpful read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. However, there is no traditional division of chapters according to separate novels. The seven chapters focus on interconnected motifs in DeLillo’s oeuvre, each dwelling on duality of meanings or, as Naas puts it, ‘contraband’: the often-unexpected juxtaposition of ideas that DeLillo sneaks into his texts. The exception to the rule is the conclusion, devoted entirely to DeLillo’s most recent novel, The Silence (2020). The replacement of a traditional conclusion works well for the overarching theme of contraband, as 
TI - Naas, Michael. Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies
DO - 10.1093/fmls/cqae032
DA - 2024-07-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/naas-michael-apocalyptic-ruin-and-everyday-wonder-in-don-delillo-s-ebAXNMWz08
SP - 286
EP - 286
VL - 60
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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