The Main Thing Is Dread: On Don DeLillo’s “The Silence”
Cornel Bonca contends with "The Silence," the latest novel from Don DeLillo.
Cornel Bonca contends with "The Silence," the latest novel from Don DeLillo.
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Sometime in the late 1970s, Don DeLillo stopped being embarrassed by his own inclinations toward the sacred.
The novel — what we have of it anyway — challenges us to pay attention with a selflessness that allows the world to "blaze in an almost sacred way."