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22 novembre 1963, assassinat du président Kennedy. Faute d’élucidation crédible, le mystère est resté total et le drame est entré dans la légende américaine.
Don DeLillo a puisé dans la vérité historique tous les éléments d’un fantastique roman policier — agents secrets, activistes de droite et de gauche, mafiosi, strip-teaseuses, trafiquants de drogue, CIA, FBI, KGB, Fidel Castro… et un coupable désigné nommé Oswald, né sous le signe de la Balance (Libra, en anglais), meurtrier idéal assassiné à son tour devant les caméras du monde entier. De ce personnage mystérieux, DeLillo a fait l’antihéros d’un roman saisissant qui prouvera une fois de plus que l’intuition d’un grand romancier peut nous emmener plus loin sur le chemin de la vérité que bien des enquêtes.
Don DeLillo a puisé dans la vérité historique tous les éléments d’un fantastique roman policier — agents secrets, activistes de droite et de gauche, mafiosi, strip-teaseuses, trafiquants de drogue, CIA, FBI, KGB, Fidel Castro… et un coupable désigné nommé Oswald, né sous le signe de la Balance (Libra, en anglais), meurtrier idéal assassiné à son tour devant les caméras du monde entier. De ce personnage mystérieux, DeLillo a fait l’antihéros d’un roman saisissant qui prouvera une fois de plus que l’intuition d’un grand romancier peut nous emmener plus loin sur le chemin de la vérité que bien des enquêtes.
656 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 15,1988
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656 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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January 1, 2001 by Babel
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9782742731107
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2742731105
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French
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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....
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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...
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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."
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."
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