In this post we are going to present some aspects about one of the representative authors of Postmodernist literature, Don DeLillo, and one of his best known works, Cosmopolis, published in 2003. First we will talk about Don DeLillo’s person, his life and his career as an author, and we will give some of the titles of the novels that have given him the fame he has. After that we will focus on Cosmopolis, one of his most important works which has been even adapted into a movie. We will summarize the work very briefly, and then we will analyze some of the most important aspects of postmodernist novels that we can find in it, for example consumerism, the taste for violence and the apparition and use of technologies.
Don DeLillo was born in New York in 1936 in an Italian-American family and neighborhood. He was not interested in reading or writing until he got a job as a parking attendant as a teenager, where spent so much time alone. He read important authors such as William Faulkner, James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway who will later influence his first writings together with jazz music and cinema.
Postmodern Literature 