出生于一九三四年的唐?德里罗是个在平衡木上行走的小说家,野心很大,也正是他出众的平衡能力让他实现了这种野心,成为了当代美国最重要的作家之一。他写的是冷战以来“美国世纪”的诞生记和墓志铭:冷战时期的美国政治和美苏关系,民权运动和移民境遇,以及当代消费文化、电子网络和身份政治的兴起。也在这个背景下提供了一幅美国众生相,从政客、金融大亨、白领、教授、文人艺人到贫民窟穷人,无所不容,其间穿插着洞察人际互动幽微之处的神来之笔。德里罗稳健地穿行于全景与微景之间,做着各种难度不一的动作。不论何时,他都捕捉着当代美国乃至全球 Tang Dirlo was born in 1934, a novelist walking on a balance beam, ambitious, and it is his outstanding balance of capabilities so that he achieved this ambition, became the most important contemporary American writers one. He wrote the birth and epitaphs of the “American Century” since the Cold War: the U.S. politics and the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the civil rights movement and the immigration situation, and the rise of contemporary consumer culture, electronic networks and identity politics. It is also in this context that the United States provides a living behemoth of the United States, from politicians, financial tycoons, white-collar workers, professors, and literati artists to the poor in the slum, interspersed with insights into the intricacies of human interaction. Derrick steadily runs between the panorama and the micro-King, doing a variety of different movements. Whenever he caught the contemporary United States and the world