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Can I read The Angel in a Country of Last Things. DeLillo, Auster and the Post-human Landscape on EtoBox?
The Angel in a Country of Last Things. DeLillo, Auster and the Post-human Landscape by Clara Sarmento is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Angel in a Country of Last Things. DeLillo, Auster and the Post-human Landscape about?
## Abstract Themes of isolation and urban alienation dominate Paul Auster's __In the Country of Last Things__ (1987), Don DeLillo's short-story “The Angel Esmeralda” (1994), and DeLillo's __Underworld__ (1997). Individual as well as collective memory arises from violence, war, and despair in a not merely fictional, post-human urban landscape. Unexpected images and revelations lie scattered in each corner of Auster's and DeLillo's geography of horror. DeLillo's New York underworld and Auster's imaginary country are peopled by characters and groups that practise their own art, speak or write in their own language, and worship their own miracles, thus building a secret legacy. The isolated individuals of these underworlds create their own rituals, beliefs, and myths: a whole collective memory emerges in a post-human landscape.
Who reads The Angel in a Country of Last Things. DeLillo, Auster and the Post-human Landscape?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Clara Sarmento
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)