We’re Still Living in Don DeLillo’s White Noise
“’I want to immerse myself,’ says one character in Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, White Noise, ‘in American magic and dread.’ Plenty of novels capture American dread, but few understand its relationship to American magic as well as White Noise. Ahead of Netflix’s adaptation of the novel, it’s worth revisiting DeLillo’s masterpiece, which remains one of our most perceptive visions of contemporary America and the desperate illusions of consumer society. ... White Noise confronts the problem faced by every novelist who tries to depict the United States: the strangeness of our society defies the conventions of literary realism. ...”
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