// War Literature

It is very interesting that DeLillo decides to use the baseball game between the Giants and the Dodgers to compare with war. At first glance, one may not really see much of a connection between the two. One person even considered it an “escape” from war. I completely disagree. One of the major differences between […]

This is a pretty interesting article, by famed philosopher and critic Slavoj Zizek about the genre of holocaust cinema. http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/17/

The book S. introduces our class to a new aspects of war that we never really discussed deeply before. Civilians play an important part in wars, especially since the twentieth century. I believe that wars used to be more about hand to hand, one army fighting another for the most part. Although, the capture and raping […]

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Slavenka Drakulic’s novel S tells the story of a war with many unthinkable acts. What I found interesting about the novel is that the brutal events such as the raping and torturing of civilians sends a message not that those acts are so unreal that it is hard for anyone to think of this happening, […]

While reading Delillo’s prologue to Underworld, I was confused as to the direction Delillo was trying to take us.  What exactly is his take on war?  It’s definitely different and challenging in its own right – not resembling the typical war stories that we had read.  However, there are a few parts to the novella […]

This piece by DeLillo is arguable the most “positive” work that we have read thus far in class. with the exception of the minor battle for the winning ball towards the end of the introuction, this piece is relatively quarrel free. Rather than being centered around war and the effects that it is having on […]

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Originally published as a novella, The Triumph of Death is the prologue to Don DeLillo’s Underworld, one of the most important American novels of the last 25 years. See the link: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/fiction-25-years.html