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title: "Libra"
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# Libra

**Brand:** don delillo
**Price:** € 24.89
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- **What is this?** Libra by don delillo
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Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Kinship with Oswald
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2021*

This book is DeLillo’s take on the Kennedy assassination. DeLillo is the exemplar of what I think of as peak 80s male fiction. It took Hemingway and Fitzgerald and distilled that through the chaos of the sixties and Thompson and Mailer etc. and created their own brand. It is good but is kind of cold and antiseptic – I’m old enough that it was the hallmark of “serious” literature when I was young but feels dated and stilted like some sort of baby MFA student is trying to be too serious about things. You get that here.The thing is that you know how this book is pretty much going to go if you have a sense of the details around the assignation and Oswald’s life. DeLillo does manage to make it interesting, as it becomes a psychological portrait not only of Oswalt but of his relationships with his mother and his wife. Weirdly, I feel a real kinship and sympathy for the person that DeLillo creates as Lee Harvey. He’s a bit of a patsy and he wants to make the world better but more than anything he is just a smart kid lost in his own world.

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    Doom and Gloom, Exquisitely Realized
  

*by R***Z on Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2012*

I come to DeLillo's Libra via James Ellroy's American Tabloid.  Ellroy has his own take on the Kennedy assassination, but he praises DeLillo's take very highly.  When Ellroy praises, I listen.I see now why Ellroy loves the book.  DeLillo's take is very persuasive and executed with high art.  DeLillo's Oswald is an alienated loner, seeking to connect with something important.  He's not sure what that is--a momentous event, a large historical process?  He distrusts all governments--ours, the USSR's, the Mexicans'--and moves mercurially between ideologies.  He serves in the military; he defects to Russia; he leaves Russia; he flees his mother though she is the only steady point in his life; he marries a Russian woman but beats her and drives her away.  As those who would seek to exploit him realize, he is both vague and weak but sometimes strong and determined.  He has been bullied and brutalized in the past but he has somehow survived; he could be the perfect tool.It is an old principle in literary study that the more you get to know a character the more you like that character, even if the character is radically flawed.  DeLillo is working against that principle and he does so successfully.  The more we get to know Oswald . . . the more we get to know him.  We do not like him; we simply begin to understand him as a figure more pathetic than malevolent, more sad than savage, more lost and doomed than the other characters in the shadows who populate his world.The other dark forces--Castro-hating CIA agents, bitter Mafiosi, uber-weird right-wingers like David Ferrie--are beautifully realized and ultimately part of the strange stew in which Lee Harvey Oswald ultimately finds himself.  In capturing the characters DeLillo is capturing the times.  He does that very well.  He also captures the places, particularly New Orleans and Dallas, though we get a feel for Miami as well.DeLillo's structure is largely chronological, but he switches between characters and points of view and offers an overall impression that coheres very nicely.  Much of the character depiction is phenomenological, with a summation of experiences, impressions, insights, glimpses, momentary realizations.  This is very Ellroyesque and we can see DeLillo's influence in many ways.Finally, this is a piece of historical fiction which is very plausible, very moving and very, very sad.  The writing is generally exquisite.  The characters and events (as Conrad would say) have been very carefully contemplated.  In Heart of Darkness Conrad writes of the `brooding gloom' that hangs over London and its environs.  If it's brooding gloom that you want, here, in Libra, is God's plenty.Highly recommended.

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    Fun Yet Frustrating
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2021*

The writing is sharp, intense and very gripping. The  book loses focus with its silly jfk conspiracy angle. I understand that he isn't trying to answer questions but you'd think after getting a good grasp on who Oswald was beforehand he'd know that his main character would never work with ANYONE EVER. I know the book came out in 1988 but there was plenty of material to draw from like Marina and Lee by McMillan and American Grotesque by Kirkwood to get a grip on who Oswald was and who he did and did not play ball with. The real story of the firebrand loner, the classic lone gunman who got lucky that day in November is way more exciting and speaks deeply of the frayed disjointed America that is always seething in the background. The parts where he focuses just on Oswald are brilliant and perfect and I wish the entire book was just about him and his mindset. The parts concerning him getting help to take a pot shot at Walker were ridiculous and almost ruined the book for me. That and the other stupid parts about Ferry or whatever oliver stone nonsense are the only reasons why this doesn't get the five star treatment.

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