End Zone
Автор:
DeLillo DonЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-06Язык книги:
Кол-во страниц:
42
Amazon.com Review
Don DeLillo's second novel, a sort of Dr. Strangelove meets North Dallas Forty, solidified his place in the American literary landscape in the early 1970s. The story of an angst-ridden, war-obsessed running back for Logos College in West Texas, End Zone is a heady and hilarious conflation of Cold War existentialism and the parodied parallelism of battlefield/sports rhetoric. When not arguing nuclear endgame strategy with his professor, Major Staley, narrator Gary Harkness joins a brilliant and unlikely bunch of overmuscled gladiators on the field and in the dormitory. In characteristic fashion, DeLillo deliberately undermines the football-is-combat cliche by having one of his characters explain: 'I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't...
