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The Body Artist is a novella written in 2001 by Don DeLillo. It explores the grieving process of a young performance artist , Lauren Hartke, following the suicide of her significantly older husband. The novella is sometimes described as a ghost story due to the appearance of an enigmatic figure that Lauren discovers hiding in an ...
In The Body Artist, the title character Lauren Hartke might have said, “I sense, therefore I am,” and the mysterious Mr. Tuttle, “I will thought, therefore I am be.” Through these two...
28 de may. de 2013 · English. "For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life. figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American."
Plot Summary. The Body Artist is a 2001 novella by American author Don DeLillo. The artist of the title is Lauren Hartke, who is visited by a mysterious and helpless figure Mr. Tuttle in the weeks after her husband’s suicide. Told through a combination of third-person narrative and newspaper articles, the novella explores the nature of grief ...
The Body Artist: A Novel. Don DeLillo. Simon and Schuster, Apr 7, 2001 - Fiction - 128 pages. A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and...
In “The Body Artist” by Don DeLillo, the protagonist Lauren Hartke is a complex character whose inner turmoil and emotional struggles are at the forefront of the novel. Lauren is a performance artist who specializes in body art, and her work is deeply personal and introspective.
The Body Artist, as a narrative that stages a scenario of traumatic. loss and return through the phantasmatic figure of a "madman in the attic," explores dynamics of psychic intrusion (of an unassim-. ilable presence) and interconnectedness as the consequence of. traumatic experience.
