Sunday, December 21, 2008

Review: Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo

Note: This post originally appeared on my discontinued website maartensity.com. The published date and time has been adjusted to match the original.

Picked up this novel for £3 at Spitalfields Market. Highly stylised writing, full of intellectual-sounding snippets that either borrow heavily from Baudrillard, or must be considered a parallel evolution of consciousness.

If I make it sound slightly unappetising, it's unintentional. There is more to fascinate than I can adequately express here, and my admiration rose when it became clear that one of the central topics is eerily in step with the recent stock market crash that started in the US ... A warning ahead of the event?

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