Tuesday, April 01, 2003
All Day in a Rich Guy’s Limo Makes for a Very Silly Novel We badly want there to be a novelist who can pronounce on the Big Themes of our mediated world, and Mr. DeLillo has always been up for the job. For all his weaknesses (plot, character, dialogue), he writes terrific set pieces—critics and fellow novelists will forgive you anything if you deck it out in a glittering style—and he can work himself up into quite a state about the significance of it all. He’s not afraid to be grandiose; that, and his eloquence combines potently with our desire for an oracular voice to obscure the fact that for years almost everything Big he has had to say has been either 1) banal or 2) wrong.
posted by Jeff Lester |
9:20 AM |
|
|
|
|
|
