L’espace lisse : la représentation du désert dans Point Oméga de Don DeLillo
Point Omega is Don DeLillo’s third novel written after 9/11. After a representation of the attacks in Falling Man, DeLillo focuses on Iraq War. We shall consider how DeLillo – using a shift – sets up an indirect representation of the war: in Point Omega, the desert, one of the American spaces par ex...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université du Sud Toulon-Var
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Babel : Littératures Plurielles |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/babel/7110 |
| Summary: | Point Omega is Don DeLillo’s third novel written after 9/11. After a representation of the attacks in Falling Man, DeLillo focuses on Iraq War. We shall consider how DeLillo – using a shift – sets up an indirect representation of the war: in Point Omega, the desert, one of the American spaces par excellence, appears as a virtualization of the war happening in Iraq. We will use the concepts of smooth space and striated space, forged by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus to analyze the representation of space in DeLillo’s novel. |
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| ISSN: | 1277-7897 |