<i>Valparaiso</i> is art at its finest.

Boston Globe

A play that crawls into the most carefully protected corners of one’s consciousness—gorgeous, frightening, stunningly poetic, wickedly funny, surprisingly voluptuous and poetic.

Chicago Sun-Times

In Valparaiso, a breathtaking play from Don DeLillo, a man sets out on what he imagines will be an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It proves to be anything but run-of-the-mill, turning instead into a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence.

Valparaiso is a funny, sharp and deeply satirical look at our information age. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unread. And everything melts repeatedly into something else, as if driven by the finger on the TV remote. This is also a play that makes obsessive poetry out of the language of routine airline announcements and the flow of endless information.

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A stunningly poetic play looking at the information age.
Don DeLillo has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.

Product details

ISBN
9780330426947
Published
2004-04-02
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Weight
132 gr
Height
203 mm
Width
127 mm
Thickness
7 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
112

Author

Biographical note

Don DeLillo is the author of several plays and award-winning novels, including Underworld and The Body Artist. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.

His plays include Valparaiso, Love-Lies-Bleeding, The Day Room and The Word For Snow.