Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a
fresh and engaging study of "last things" in Don DeLillo's
works-things like death, mourning, and the decline of the American
empire, but then also the apocalypse, the last judgment, and the
end of the world more generally. Michael Naas untangles complex
themes in short, witty chapters that highlight and celebrate
DeLillo's inventive and playful writing, employing a novel approach
to literary criticism. Making no use of secondary sources, the book
is entirely a discussion of DeLillo's work, accessible to any level
of readership while maintaining a firm grasp of the theory
necessary to make this unique argument. And yet, this book is also
about all the things that double or shadow those last things in the
very same works, like the wonder of language or the radiance of
everyday events. From Americana (1971) up through Zero K (2016) and
The Silence (2020), and perhaps like no other American author, Don
DeLillo has created meaning by contrasting, juxtaposing or, as Naas
calls it here, "contrabanding" first and last things, conflicting
or opposing forces such as life and death, creation and
destruction, consumption and waste, everyday wonder and apocalyptic
ruin, the origins of language and the end of the world. In his
adept demonstration of how DeLillo has returned repeatedly to these
"last things," Naas shows how the works of Don DeLillo have been
there for more than half a century to remind us of one simple and
yet profound truth-nothing lasts forever.
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