Lockdown dystopia in chamber play format: In the narrow novel “Die Stille” Don DeLillo observes five New Yorkers who experience the sudden end of the world as we know it in an apartment.
Don DeLillo turns off the light. Max and Diane are still waiting with their ex-student Martin for the last two guests and, above all, the end of the advertising block before the Super Bowl, the football season finale that has long been foamed into a major national event. But then “something happens”. The screens are black, the cell phones pointless, the Internet is almost a memory, the city is silent, and further out the planes tumble from the sky.
Seven floors above New York, the 83-year-old author stages an intimate play about the end of the world as we know it. And our assurance of them. But not as a disaster report, but as an echo sounder log: DeLillo looks through this space, isolated from the outside world, at a …
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