Libra (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Don DeLillo
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Communism or communists, Murder or homicide, West, U.S., Assassination, Cuba or Cubans, Presidents, Texas, Japan or Japanese people, Defectors, Soviet Union or Soviets, Intelligence service, Secret service
- Locales: United States, Soviet Union, Japan
In Libra, a novel that creates a plausible reading of the Kennedy assassination, the narrative center inevitably belongs to Lee Harvey Oswald, the alienated Nobody fed on tough-guy fantasies that he ingests without care from television and film and who, at age twenty-four, is determined to become part of history. In Libra, DeLillo meticulously recreates a believable Oswald, carefully balancing the conflicting extremes of the historic Oswald, specifically, his commitments to both the Left and the Right, his allegiance to the Soviet Union (he was a Soviet defector), and his...
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