Don DeLillo
Mr. DeLillo’s novels published after Sept. 11 have tended to be disappointing, substituting gauzy musings about mortality and time for dead-on observation, Pinter-esque silences for razzle-dazzle dialogue and tactile prose.
Authors Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani’s opinions
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…the author has produced what is arguably his most powerful book yet: a novel that subjugates his penchant for postmodern pyrotechnics to the demands of the story at hand…
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…regardless of their setting, her books have tended to pivot around certain persistent themes: the relationship between the individual and society; the tension between domesticity and freedom, responsibility and independence; and the tug of war between human will and the imperatives of love, betrayal and ideological faith.
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She uses her unerring eye for detail to annotate their emotional lives: Ashoke’s hatred of waste, which makes him complain ‘'if a kettle had been filled with too much water;’‘…
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By turns funny and corrosive, portentous and affecting, The Corrections not only shows us two generations of an American family struggling to make sense of their lives, but also cracks open a window on a sullen country lurching its way toward the millennium.
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In those opening lines to one of her most famous works, ‘The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers articulates the theme that would preoccupy her throughout her career: the apprehension of separateness experienced by introspective individuals and their yearning for some sort of connection with the world of others.
Michiko Kakutani
House of Meetings
Doris Lessing
The Namesake
The Corrections
The Member of the Wedding