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White Noise
DON DELILLO
1985
INTRODUCTION
Published in 1985, Don DeLillo's White Noise is designed to critique the society it reflects, the United States during the 1980s. The novel focuses especially on how the representation of things has become more real than things in and of themselves. DeLillo's technique, derived in large measure from film rather than literature, depends upon non-sequential jumps from scene to scene. This