Mao II
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print or on film. Two lovers quarrel in the back of a taxi and a question becomes implicit in the event. Who will write the book and who will play the lovers in the movie? Everything seeks its own heightened version. Nothing happens until it's consumed."--Mao II (1991) by Don DeLillo "Mao II is a novel of ideas,and at its heart lies the argument that novelists and terrorists play a zero-sum game.In Bill's words:“What terrorists gain, novelists lose.""--Crimes of Art and Terror (2007) by Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe |
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Mao II, published in 1991, is Don DeLillo's tenth novel. The book tells the story of a novelist, struggling to finish a novel, who travels to Lebanon to assist a writer being held hostage. The title is derived from a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen prints depicting Mao Zedong. DeLillo dedicated the book to his friend Gordon Lish. Major themes of the book include crowds and the effects of political terrorism. Mao II received positive reviews from critics and won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992.
