The Story

Kat Kit // January 8, 2011 // 8 comments
Don DeLillo

Update by BuckyW, 1/27/13

This post includes the synopsis of the novel from the publisher, posted when the blog was first established. I’m updating here with the synopsis of the story from the film’s official website, www.cosmopolisthefilm.com. Readers can learn much more about the story throughout this blog of course; from reviews of the film and from out original series posts. Please go to menu items at the top of the blog to explore further.

Synopsis from Official Film Production Site:

 

From the Publisher of ‘Cosmopolis’:

 

 

Cosmopolis is nothing if not challenging, thought-provoking, and utterly different.
~Chicago Sun-Times

Cosmopolis is written with the sort of intensity you simply don’t get elsewhere.
~GQ (UK)

Cosmopolis…is not just something new, and not just about what is new. It is about newness itself: the high-pressure extrusion of the future into the razor-thin now-moment we inhabit….Cosmopolis is a concise Ulysses for the new century.
~The San Diego Union-Tribune

A brilliant new novel….Don Delillo continues to think about the modern world in language and images as quizzically beautiful as any writer.
~San Francisco Chronicle

Cosmopolis, “a brisk, absorbing book that pulses with his trademark themes: alienation and paranoia, art and commerce, reality and representation, sex and death, the global market, terrorism, class and their often absurd and violent interplay.”
~The Minneapolis Star

You can check out their page and order your copy if you haven’t already by clicking here:
Simon and Schuster – Cosmopolis

It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism — when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments — are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol’s funeral, and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors — experts on security, technology, currency, finance, and a few sexual partners — as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future.

Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.

There are 8 comments .

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eliot —

Simon and Schuster – Cosmopolis.Novel if fantastic and hope soon i will read in full.
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car finance —

Cosmopolis is very thought provoking and will challenge your perception about life. I highly recommend it if you want an intellectual read.

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Since you said it so, car finance, i'll look into this and see if I can get it as an e-book through Amazon.

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I was reluctant to read this novel even though it was highly recommended. That's because five years ago I read and reviewed “Underworld”, another of this author's novels, and while I thought that the writing was brilliant, his world view was very disturbing. But I was curious about Cosmopolis. And it was short, a mere 209 pages long, a book I knew I could easily read in one sitting. It took me more than one sitting to read however. It actually took me several weeks. That's because every time I put it down, I was reluctant to pick it up again. Perhaps that's because it rings so true and its blows fall so close to home. And, of course, the disturbing world view I had expected was there in all its glory.

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car hire perth —

Bottom line: This is not one of DeLillo's best, and close to one of his worst. While it started out with promise, the promise was unfulfilled.
To me the pacing was interminable. While this book is almost one-quarter the length of UNDERGROUND, it took me three times longer to read. Part of the issue was the utter contempt I had for the main character, Eric Packer. You're not supposed to like him, I know, I know. But there are thousands of characters in literature that you aren't supposed to like but they are interesting, at least. Not this guy.

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Don DeLillo is an acquired taste. He loves repetition,which drives many readers mad. He has a powerful worldview, centeredon conspiracies and secret meanings. Political conservatives often despise him.

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