Jan 1, 2010

The Body Artist | Social Concerns

In The Body Artist, Don DeLillo departs from the style and length he is known for as a result of the novel Underworld, his tour de force, and turns to the form of a novella, for an exploration into perceptions of time, identity constructions, and coping with death. The story begins in the kitchen of a resort house, where Rey Robles and his wife Lauren Hartke, the body artist of the title, are eating breakfast. Their words and movements overlap, not quite meshing, but playing out a certain choreography, revealing ease in a relationship between two people each...