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Americana (Contemporary American fiction)

Description

A factional reconstruction of the events leading up to John Kennedy's assassination. The antihero of the book is, of course, Lee Harvey Oswald, who is as hauntingly real in this book as he was elusive in real life.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-27
Summary: "A brillinant writer in the America tradition"

Don DeLillo is one of the greatest wtiters of contemporary fiction. Americana is a delightfully conceived, but jaundiced view of the American way of life. As a serious satirical writer he has no peer. The characters he creates, particularly his protagonist, live in a world of make believe, a phony fantasy land of pretentious expediency with mannerisms. Nevertheless, all are interesting as personalities because DeLillo is a superb creator of realistic, yet bizarre people, often referring to screen idols such as Burt Lancaster as some sort of lifestyle role model. His characters are about as real - yet they are entertaining - like puppets. Their ethics are non existent, yet they go through the motions, they pretend to be friendly - but politeness is only a means to an end. Loyalty is meaningless. It seems their beliefs are the result of indoctrination at the hands of the puppetmaster, or master of ceremonies, DeLillo himself.

The setting is an advertising agency. David is one of the executives who has been pushed into it by his ruthless and detestable father. He is going quietly insane in a cynical exploitive way, without any loyalties whatsoever - not even to his wives, lovers or family members. He takes what he can get without regret or compunction yet has a certain sensitivity lurking just below the surface. He knows he is beyond redemption but doesn't seem to care. He is the complete iconoclast and he knows it and he knows why. He realizes what his father and many like him represent, but doesn't condemn him. He accepts him for what he is and takes what he can get from him. He has been programmed to conform to the life of a predator without a conscience, with a pseudo religious sense of self righteousness, and is aware of it, but does he care? He is in advertising where images and sales are all that count. It is all about the survival of the fittest, and the fittest are the phoniest. It is where the origin of the species died of shame. This is a wonderful read by a superb craftsman.The Learning Process: Some Creative Impressions

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-05-28
Summary: "INTO THE VORTEX"

"Into the vortex of the cliche'" David thinks his wife will lead him. Later, Sullivan tells David, the main characdter, "David, you're a lovable cliche' " What are these references to a "cliche' " but a sly authorial nod to the greatest cliche' of all, the wriging of the the "great American novel". And yet, where's there's smoke there's fire, where there's a cliche' there's something that initially prompted it. And while DeLillo may make fun of the "great American novel" he comes tantalizingly close to writing one.

It's a sneaky novel, sneaky in that writing about the American experience, trying to make some sense of whether it is more a dream of innocence or a nightmare of technological power which has waged 20th century wars across the planet. It ends by deciding "the literature I had been confronting these past days [were] archetypes of the dismal mystery" The novel ends in "silence and darkness", David leaving arguably a low point in American history and culture, the place where JFK was assassinated in Dallas, and returning to where he began, New York, a "falling man" [interestingly, the title of his later post 9-11 novel} involved in advertising, the world in which "words and meaning were at odds".

Advertising, it is stated, moves the viewer from the "first to the third person", suggesting that American's relentless material success has removed authenticity from the experience of the individual and diminished his existence by making him into a consumer, a person who fulfills himself only by viewing images and trying to emulate them. A camera shot is described of a group of ladies with shopping bags, "a fabulous salute to the forgetfulness of being. What better proof that they have been alive?" America, then, is a land of infinitely multiple and created images. To consume these images is to forget that you are a human being, that you are alive. Purposefully, most of this novel uses the third person; "David Bell" cannot continually exist as an "I" - he has been corrupted by America.

There are a number of fleeting references to James Joyce whose "young artist" could only escape the moral and artistic death of a corrupt Ireland by going into exile. It is no accident that early in AMERICANA, David Bell does use the first person, "I" and mentions that he too is in exile, "It's time to run the film again. . . not much to do on this island." The act of trying to solve the mystery of America, its contradictions and paradoxes, finally is overwhelming, and all one can do is to cinematically (the art form most developed in America) run the film again, take one more look at the images, and then . . . the rest is up to the reader.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-03-07
Summary: "fair"

thought I was getting an newer version, but all books read the same. great read

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2009-12-19
Summary: "Interesting, boring"

The book is insightful, interesting and very relevant. The only problem for me was that the long descriptions and the general slowness with which the story unfolds bored me to the point where I had to force myself to keep reading.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-10-22
Summary: "Best DeLillo"

Of all the DeLillo books AMERICANA is my favorite. His writing seems to be the most lyrical and artful in this book (with the exception of the first section of UNDERWORLD, which blew me away) and the plot of this is my favorite of all his books as well, and for me the easiest to follow. DeLillo is one of our best contemporary writers, AMERICANA is one of his best books,