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Mao II, published in 1991, is Don DeLillo's tenth novel. The book tells the story of a novelist, struggling to finish a novel, who travels to Lebanon to assist a writer being held hostage. The title is derived from a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen prints depicting Mao Zedong .
O romance de Don DeLillo, "Mao II", diz respeito a palavras e imagens, romancistas e terroristas. Assombrado pelos espíritos de figuras diversas como Andy Warhol e Mao Tsé-tung, o livro leva o leitor de Nova York a Londres e a Beirute, a moderna república do terror.
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Don DeLillo's follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Mao II is a series of elusive set-pieces built around the themes of mass psychology, individualism vs. the mob, the power of imagery and the search for meaning in a blasted, post-modern world.
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An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen.
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20 de jun. de 1991 · In Mao II, Bill Gray, the world’s most renowned novelist, an aging dinosaur and an illusive sonofabitch firmly believes that he was born too late. He was of the idea that writers used to be the scale of the world’s moral balance and sometimes even the force the drives it off its axis.
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1 de mai. de 1992 · An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II explores a world in which the...
Em Mao II, DeLillo investiga a fixação do ser humano pelo apocalipse e a urgente necessidade que todos têm de certezas, aprendendo as obsessões e medos universais dos tempos modernos.
