The 80*81 Book Collection - Volume Three
Mao III
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. March 2010
Book
144 pages
978-3-905929-03-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ronald Reagan, Ayatollah Khomeini, American Gigolo, John
Galliano, Robert Longo, Diva, Slavoj Zizek, New Pop,
Solidarnocz, John Paul II, Paul Schrader, Don DeLillo, J.G.
Ballard, C.G. Jung, The Blitz Kids: Als der Filmregisseur
Christopher Roth und der Autor Georg Diez die
Disco-Legende Giorgio Moroder zum Interview trafen, war
das im Dezember 2009 ein kalter, regnerischer Wintertag in
Los Angeles und erst der Beginn einer turbulenten, das
ganze Jahr umspannenden Recherche, die sie nach Paris
führen würde, in das winzige Zimmer der
Nobelpreisträgerin und AIDS-Forscherin Francoise
Barré-Sinoussi, nach London zum Pop-Manager Bob Last
und seiner Erklärung der Trennung der Band The Human
League, nach Aargau zum Schach-Giganzen Viktor
Kortschnoi und seiner Lektion in Parapsychology - all das
als Teil ihrer wundersamen Wanderung, die sie 80*81
nennen und die die Frage umkreist, wie die Jahre 1980 und
1981 die Welt verändert haben.
Galliano, Robert Longo, Diva, Slavoj Zizek, New Pop,
Solidarnocz, John Paul II, Paul Schrader, Don DeLillo, J.G.
Ballard, C.G. Jung, The Blitz Kids: Als der Filmregisseur
Christopher Roth und der Autor Georg Diez die
Disco-Legende Giorgio Moroder zum Interview trafen, war
das im Dezember 2009 ein kalter, regnerischer Wintertag in
Los Angeles und erst der Beginn einer turbulenten, das
ganze Jahr umspannenden Recherche, die sie nach Paris
führen würde, in das winzige Zimmer der
Nobelpreisträgerin und AIDS-Forscherin Francoise
Barré-Sinoussi, nach London zum Pop-Manager Bob Last
und seiner Erklärung der Trennung der Band The Human
League, nach Aargau zum Schach-Giganzen Viktor
Kortschnoi und seiner Lektion in Parapsychology - all das
als Teil ihrer wundersamen Wanderung, die sie 80*81
nennen und die die Frage umkreist, wie die Jahre 1980 und
1981 die Welt verändert haben.
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Is the desert life in slow-motion?
Don DeLillo: "The sense of time is very powerful. In the case of the character in Point Omega, it begins to occur to him that there is something here that is connected to evolution and extinction. In that desert there were animals like saber tooth tigers and giant zebras-animals that are now extinct. You have to think along these lines. He is also getting old and he is thinking in personal terms as well. There is this emotion."
What else do you know about Richard Elster?
Don DeLillo: "I know what is in the book, not much more, not much more than you know. I don't know what happened to his daughter. What I was doing is arranging moments so that they would coincide. You see the moment in the prologue in which the two men appear, and the reader discovers in the main narrative that these two men in the desert are the same two men from the opening. One hopes that the reader will also discover that Jessie, who is also in the central narrative, is the woman who turns out, in the epilogue, to have a conversation with the anonymous man in the screening room."
Don DeLillo: "The sense of time is very powerful. In the case of the character in Point Omega, it begins to occur to him that there is something here that is connected to evolution and extinction. In that desert there were animals like saber tooth tigers and giant zebras-animals that are now extinct. You have to think along these lines. He is also getting old and he is thinking in personal terms as well. There is this emotion."
What else do you know about Richard Elster?
Don DeLillo: "I know what is in the book, not much more, not much more than you know. I don't know what happened to his daughter. What I was doing is arranging moments so that they would coincide. You see the moment in the prologue in which the two men appear, and the reader discovers in the main narrative that these two men in the desert are the same two men from the opening. One hopes that the reader will also discover that Jessie, who is also in the central narrative, is the woman who turns out, in the epilogue, to have a conversation with the anonymous man in the screening room."