Rock'n'roll littérature!

Great Jones Street - Don DeLillo

"Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. I mean long journeys across grey space. I mean danger, the edge of every void, the circumstance of one man imparting an erotic terror to the dreams of the republic. Understand the man who must inhabit these extreme regions, monstrous and vulval, damp with memories of violation. Even if half-mad he is absorbed into the public's total madness; even if fully rational, a bureaucrat in hell, a secret genius of survival, he is sure to be destroyed by the public's contempt for survivors. Fame, this special kind, feeds itself on outrage, on what the counsellors of lesser men would consider bad publicity -- hysteria in limousines, knife fights in the audience, bizarre litigation, treachery, pandemonium and drugs. Perhaps the only natural law attaching to true fame is that the famous man is compelled, eventually, to commit suicide.

Is it clear that I was a hero of Rock'n'Roll"

(1973)

C'est avec cette première phrase magnifique et ce premier paragraphe assassin que Don DeLillo commence son livre. La suite je ne m'en souviens plus.

Don DeLillo vient de sortir un nouveau bouquin, Point Omega.

Retrouvez l'entretien qu'il accorde aux Inrockuptibles ici.

Pas de traduction pour l'instant mais si une âme charitable en trouve une, je rajouterai le lien sur ce post! J'aime l'idée d'imposer une terreur érotique aux rêves de la République.... Rock'n'roll!!!!