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Delillo is to be congratulated for digging deep into the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. I am of the opinion that Delillo was painstaking in his research of Oswald; that it is not fancied or concocted. However Delillo's vehicle for recounting Oswald's life is unconvincing . The concept that, at least, rogue agents of the CIA sought to stage a failed attempt at the President's life so as to spur an invasion of Cuba is more than just farfetched. This theory that pinning the attempt on JFK's life on Oswald due his pro Soviet activities does serious damage to the lucid studies which establish firm ground thaf the assassination was intended to be successful, and that high government officals were to varying degrees involved (at least with the massive cover-up). Simple put, Delillo's attempt to place his stamp on the assassination trivializes the historical record, and is a comfort to those who seek to further confuse the American public as to the manner of a cherished President's death.


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Libra Contemporary American Fiction Don DeLillo Books Reviews

The best piece of writing(fiction or non-fiction) on JFK. The un-surfable beast of Modern History washes away all the characters in this novel. No one stood a chance.
It is an excellent book; however, I sometimes found the writing or sequencing to be very disjointed. Still, I believe that the disjointed style lends itself to the persona of some of the characters.
Excellent concept and ideas. Learned so much about Cuban/US relationships at that time. Didn't realize just how complex Lee Harvey Oswald might have been. Could rogue FBI agents really have pulled something like this off? Was Oswald really manipulated his whole life?
I'm not the biggest DeLillo fan; I thought White Noise was very overrated. But I've seen the movie JFK at least 25 times and find the JFK assassination fascinating. And for that reason, and that reason alone, I found this book enjoyable and fulfilling.
First thing, the larger of the two reviews (I think Publisher's Weekly?) featured by for this book is very good. Don't expect an explanation of an event disguised as a novel. In Libra, DeLillo is not trying to explain an event in history; he wants to drop us into the lap of that event in all its complexity and nuance. "If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. .. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. Or perhaps not." This is the ambiguous world of the Kennedy assasination, the subject of this jewel of a novel. Particularly vivid in these pages is Jack Ruby explosive and insecure, cruel in one moment, caring the next. And of course, Oswald. We watch Oswald's slow loss of identity. In Libra he disappears from history -- gradually losing touch, direction, hope, meaning. He does not appear to drive himself, nor is he driven by CIA or FBI or other operatives who, try what they will, essentially find him impregnable. Yet, history it what he makes, or finds. It is the Russian character so much involved in Oswald's ersatz defection, Kirilenko, who best seems to understand Oswald as "some kind of Chaplinesque figure, skating along the edges of vast and dangerous events. Unknowing, partly knowing, knowing but not saying, the boy who had a quality of trailing chaos behind him, causing disasters without seeing them happen, making riddles of his life and possibly fools of us all." He is encouraged by an operative not to find a place in history -- "wrong approach Leon" -- but "to get out. Jump out. Find your place and your name on another level." Reading Libra is participating in a waking dream, a graceful juxtaposition of conspiracy and coincidence, coverging at a point in time, at a place in Dallas. Libra is evocative of the whole tragedy, a novel that puts you on edge, not because the outcome is uncertain, but because, at a deep level, one fears to follow DeLillo's exploratory threads. Not a pleasant ride, but a powerful read.
I did like this book. It is the first I read by DeLillo, but it is not going to be the last one.
Although a novel, the book is based on real facts and the developings that ended in the assassination of President Kennedy.
It helps understand that time in the US, better grasp what that society was like and also the complex, tormented personality of Oswald.
It all masterfully captured by the author
This is such a wonderfully written book. But in it DeLillo somehow manages to prophesize the next 20 years of JFK assassination research. This book is published a few months before Jim Garrison's "On the Trail of the Assassins" and yet mimics many of the conclusions Garrison himself came to. There is also the question of Oswald and destiny, not in Stephen King's sense, but the question of how long were forces guiding Oswald to his unavoidable fate? And who was Oswald, bother literally and figuratively, something John Armstrong takes up in "Harvey and Lee."
Putting aside references to JFK Assassination research, this is a brilliant book of fiction which manages to fill in the mosaic that is the events and people that lead to the death of John Kennedy.
Delillo is to be congratulated for digging deep into the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. I am of the opinion that Delillo was painstaking in his research of Oswald; that it is not fancied or concocted. However Delillo's vehicle for recounting Oswald's life is unconvincing . The concept that, at least, rogue agents of the CIA sought to stage a failed attempt at the President's life so as to spur an invasion of Cuba is more than just farfetched. This theory that pinning the attempt on JFK's life on Oswald due his pro Soviet activities does serious damage to the lucid studies which establish firm ground thaf the assassination was intended to be successful, and that high government officals were to varying degrees involved (at least with the massive cover-up). Simple put, Delillo's attempt to place his stamp on the assassination trivializes the historical record, and is a comfort to those who seek to further confuse the American public as to the manner of a cherished President's death.