Libra

don delillo

Detrás del asesinato de John F. Kennedy se esconde una compleja conspiración internacional cuya cabeza visible es Lee Harvey Oswald, pero detrás de Oswald hay un niño problemático con un atormentado mundo interior, un joven cuyos ideales entran constantemente en conflicto con la realidad que los niega.

Libra es una especulación asombrosamente veraz, literariamente impecable y escalofriantemente convincente de los sucesos que desencadenaron el asesinato de Kennedy y de la atmósfera general de aquellos tormentosos años en que el derrumbamiento del gran sueño americano abrió la puerta al secretismo gubernamental. De esta época surgen los elementos conspirativos que caracterizan casi toda la obra de este lúcido intérprete de nuestro tiempo.

Figuras reales mezcladas con personajes de ficción con verdadero virtuosismo e intrigas casi inverosímiles en una de las obras mayores de Don DeLillo, una novela que fascina desde la primera página. Escritor obsesivo con un proyecto literario de consciente continuidad, DeLillo es una de las más importantes voces narrativas de Estados Unidos.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionnovelsliteratureamericanliterary fictionpolitics20th centurythe united states of americacontemporary

496 pages, Paperback

First published August 15,1988

Literary awards

los angeles times book prize, irish times international fiction prize, national book critics circle award, national book award finalist,

Places

texas, new orleans louisiana, louisiana,

This edition

Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Published: November 4, 2005 by Seix Barral
ISBN: 9788432227974
ASIN: 8432227978
Language: Spanish; Castilian

Characters More characters

Lee Harvey Oswald

Presumed assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was fatally shot on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.Oswald had sympathies for Cuba and moved to the Soviet Union at one time, where he married and worked....
John F. Kennedy

The 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963. At 43 years of age, he was the youngest to have been elected to the office. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the b...

About the author

don delillo

Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.
DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the Kennedy assassination. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld, a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
DeLillo has described his themes as "living in dangerous times" and "the inner life of the culture." In a 2005 interview, he said that writers "must oppose systems. It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments... I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us."