While the book critiques 1980s America, it has remained relevant over the following decades. Because of this, the book has attracted much critical applause, and has remained popular with readers. A satirist of contemporary reality, DeLillo presents the story as a caricature of itself rather than as a realistic representation. Postmodern writing often offers a critique of its own content, and it presents the familiar in jarring, hyperbolic ways in order to question the accepted nature of meaning and reality. DeLillo's means of representing reality is not through the exploration of character or environment but through caricature.ĭeLillo's style is frequently called postmodern. This is an attempt to create the hyper-awareness of a world that has become oblivious to criticism via its mind-numbing familiarity-a familiarity achieved particularly through the omnipresence of uniform information that is repetitively generated by an all-pervasive mass media. DeLillo's technique, derived in large measure from film rather than literature, depends upon non-sequential jumps from scene to scene. The novel focuses especially on how the representation of things has become more real than things in and of themselves. Published in 1985, Don DeLillo's White Noise is designed to critique the society it reflects, the United States during the 1980s. DON DELILLO 1985 INTRODUCTION AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY PLOT SUMMARY CHARACTERS THEMES STYLE HISTORICAL CONTEXT CRITICAL OVERVIEW CRITICISM SOURCES FURTHER READING INTRODUCTION
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