DON DELILLO: THE CLOUD OF KNOWING

Text topic: Literature and Truth

Text author: Александра Вукотић

The paper considers an issue of recognising the truth in the novels of Don DeLillo in an attempt to show that works of this author never offer recognition of the truth through recognition of facts, historical documents and stories, but unveil the truth in inexplicable, mystical ways. The truth is mainly recognised collectively, while it seems that broad masses of people are connected by an invisible force that suddenly enables them to access a pool of knowlege; an extended hand of this invisible force are the media that hold the power to bring DeLillo’s characters to a state similar to religious trance. The paper will also try to define the role of an artist and art production, which, as it seems, hold the key role in moving the bounderies to truth recognition in DeLilo’s opus.