Review of Zero K: Zero K. By Don DeLillo New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 288pp. ISBN: 9781501135392.

Rachele Dini

doi:10.4000/ejas.11393

Review of Zero K: Zero K. By Don DeLillo New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 288pp. ISBN: 9781501135392.

Rachele Dini

University College London

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Can death be eradicated? What language might our deathless selves speak? What purpose would their lives serve? In The Value of the Novel (2015), Peter Boxall argues that the novel form is best equipped to answer such questions: “under an emerging global regime that is almost unreadable to us,” the novel in the twenty-first century “allows us to imagine and to make new worlds, to fashion new forms of accommodation between art and matter, or even to live in a condition of worldlessness.”1 The turn from historiography to futurography in Don DeLillo’s postmillennial writing can be seen to take up this speculative task, and nowhere more so than in his new book, Zero K

Original language	English
Number of pages	5
Journal	European Journal of American Studies
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.11393
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 14 May 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Don DeLillo
posthumanism
twenty-first century
speculative fiction
literary studies

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Review of Zero K: Zero K. By Don DeLillo New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 288pp. ISBN: 9781501135392.

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