Course : Η ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΑΓΓΛΟΦΩΝΗ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ (Χ 2024-25)Ζ ΕΞ Greece in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Postmodern Hellenism: Crypto-Colonials, Tourists, Terrorists, and Murder Cults

DeLillo, Don. The Names (1982) London: Picador, 1987.

Part III “The Desert” (251-331)

Part IV  “The Prairie” (333-339)

Secondary Readings:

Gourgouris, Stathis. “DeLillo in Greece Eluding the Name.” Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, edited by Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2005, 289-310.

Dyer, Geoff. “The Names by Don DeLillo Should Have Won the 1982 Booker Prize,” The Guardian (2014): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/12/booker-don-delillo-the-names

Video: Don DeLillo’s The Names: Visualization of the Settings: “Don DeLillo's The Names Lofi Beats You Can Vibe/Be Literary To” (Books You Haven’t Read, 2021):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf7O6jZL93c&t=373s