Cowart, David. Don DeLillo: the Physics of Language.(Book Review) From: Studies in the Novel | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of North Texas. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2002. xiv + 257 pp. $45.00.

DUVALL, JOHN. Don DeLillo's Underworld. A Reader's Guide. New York: Continuum, 2002. 96 pp. $9.95.

In Don DeLillo's 1991 novel, Mao II, a character--a dark visionary--offers that "Beckett is the last writer to shape the way we think and see. After him, the major work involves midair explosions and crumbled buildings. This is the new tragic narrative" (157) At a reading DeLillo gave on the Duke University campus in April 2002, I asked him to elaborate on Beckett's role in Mao II. Beckett was, DeLillo ...

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