Point Omega Book Review

One of the stars of Underworld by Don DeLillo, Nick Shay, a key lesson in his reformatory. A Jesuit priest explains that the crucial action of education can be summarized as follows: looking shoes and learn to name the parties. In front of Nick inability to give the words such as shoes laces, sole, heel, tongue flap, the upper reinforcement, back, voyeur, pond, Jesuit says, "I do not know why you saw the look. And you can not watch because you do not know the names. " The meaning is clear: things every day remain hidden because we do not know their names.

Thirteen years from the Underworld, Don DeLillo explores that idea in his new book Omega Point. The novel opens with an installation on the movie Psycho by Hitchcock: the projection of a slowed down version of the film. Slowed to the point that the film runs twenty four hours. A few moments last whole minutes, and so: "Every time a player moved a muscle, every blink, it was a revelation." Even here, therefore, is to observe what is under the eyes but hard to recognize. The rings of the tent, the famous "shower scene" shaking when the curtain is pulled, and are "improvised a poem on the death hell." Finally we see. DeLillo has never stopped chasing and name things invisible.

After masterpieces as White Noise, Libra, names and absolute masterpiece Underworld, for some years the books of the New Yorker writer had no doubt disappointed. Think of text as Cosmopolis or Body Art With Omega Point will breathe again instead inspired pages, with rocky landscapes, drinks and thunderstorms. We are not at the levels of those amazing books already mentioned, but they enjoy sentences, paragraphs and pages of great literature.

Much of the novel takes place in a desert. The old Richard Elster, Theory of Defense, talks with Jim Finley, a young director who is trying to implicate him in his new documentary film (on Iraq). The two spend their days talking. It is no coincidence that the old saying of being a reader Teilard de Chardin. Between the two develops a very complex intellectual relationship. Until you see the daughter of Elster soon, however, disappear.
The book reads a lot of phrases like: "We were outside and felt the desert looming. A sterile thunder seemed to hover over the hills, lightning storm crashing towards us. Percent childhoods, he said cryptically. Meaning what, thunder perhaps slightly evocative roar that echoed over the years. "

Or: "The air was pungent and loads, and when the rain stopped, in a few minutes, we returned to the living room and resumed the conversation was interrupted when the pandemonium started coming down."
Descriptions never fail boundaries, extensions, distances, forces.

DeLillo relies on one of the characters in the book is this: "When you stripped away all surfaces, when you look down, what remains is the terror. This is what literature wants to cure. The epic poem, the story before going to bed. "

The intensity of the writing of Don DeLillo has treated American literature, speaking often of death, but always injecting a special vitality. The love for reality, for DeLillo, is a matter of strict lexical. Language is the right tool to show the hidden beauty in everyday things and that may be revealed only through the words: "Now the sunsets were just dying light, the chances of fading.

Most of the great living writers are indebted says of his work. And although perhaps DeLillo has given birth to his greatest novels, him a little recognition would still recognized. In September, in fact, every year, throw away the Nobel Prize for literature, which always smooth the author of Underworld, a candidate of gold.