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15 de nov. de 2011 · "The Angel Esmeralda - Nine Stories" by Don DeLillo brings together examples of his work spanning the years 1979 to 2011. Admittedly, I'm not that familiar with DeLillo's impressive and award-winning oeuvre of stories, novels and plays, so I don't know if these stories are representative of the whole, or were selected for this volume because they share certain strong elements.
2 de oct. de 2012 · Nothing I can say about DeLillo on the basis of The Angel Esmeralda will come as news to anyone familiar with his novels: His prose is masterly and austere, he has a deconstructionist's obsession with the arbitrariness of language, and his interest in human beings often seems less a matter of passionate engagement than of clinical detachment…while The Angel Esmeralda is probably not the ...
Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo's sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great ...
25 de feb. de 2020 · Lliam Paterson’s The Angel Esmeralda was commissioned by Scottish Opera while he was its young composer in residence. But why it’s now receiving its world premiere at the Guildhall School in ...
17 de nov. de 2011 · Each of the stories collected in “The Angel Esmeralda” addresses a different kind of unease. It’s almost a pity that the reader knows from the start that they were written over five decades ...
15 de nov. de 2011 · Download and read the ebook version of The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo on Apple Books. From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stor Fiction & Literature · 2011
1 de nov. de 2011 · Circe’s fascination with mortals becomes the book’s marrow and delivers its thrilling ending. All the while, the supernatural sits intriguingly alongside “the tonic of ordinary things.”. A few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast.
