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A review by mononcecoeurant
Libra by Don DeLillo
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
The story of the end of truth, of the unspooling of life in America, a fracture point after which it became common assumption that there is a terrible and unknowable power that can never be seen directly or even confirmed to exist, but which nonethless stands, dark and frightening and indistinct and always in the corners of our vision. Whether or not this is actually the case is, terrifyingly, completely irrelevant. The possibility is the same as the monster’s existence. Oswald is Hidell is Alek is perhaps Oswald and perhaps never went to Mexico City or never went to Russia and perhaps was in Dallas that day and perhaps pulled the trigger and perhaps never made it back to the US and everything is white noise and motion blur and assumptions and our own fears and desperate imaginings, gazing back at us.