Delillo, The Body Artist - critical analysis

Question 1

Speaking of his narrative focus on everyday moments, what did Delillo say in a 1982 interview with Robert Harris?

Answer 1

“I do my best to confront realities… but people would rather read about their own marriages and separations… it adds a certain luster, a certain significance to their own lives”

Question 2

“Late style does not admit…”

Who said this?

Answer 2

“Late style does not admit the definitive cadences of death; instead, death appears in a fractured mode”

Edward Saaid

• consider Lauren’s memory of Ray through the smoke in the bedroom

Question 3

“Passages that cannot quite centre themselves…”

Answer 3

“Passages that cannot quite centre themselves, absent from the scene of their own noticing”