Don DeLillo (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

Although Don DeLillo’s major literary efforts center on the novel, he has contributed short stories to periodicals, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and The Atlantic Monthly, and has written several plays.

Achievements

The publication in 1971 of DeLillo’s first novel, Americana, launched the career of one of America’s most innovative and intriguing writers. DeLillo produced satirical novels that drill into and hammer at the chaos of modern society, the lack of coherence and order...

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