Author: Don DeLillo
- Fiction
- Seix Barral
- ISBN: 9788432237119
- Release Date: 10-27-2020
-Reviewed by: Lecturalia
In a world dominated by technology, a global blackout forces a group of friends to rethink what makes us human.
Super Bowl Sunday. 2022. Five friends have met for dinner in a Manhattan apartment. A retired physics professor, her husband, and their former student are waiting for the couple who will join them after a troubled flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from sports betting to bourbon and Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the theory of relativity. Suddenly, a blackout leaves the world in darkness, and the digital connections that have shaped our lives are severed.
Don DeLillo completed this novel a few weeks before the arrival of Covid-19. Silence is the story of a different kind of catastrophe and a new take on posthumanism as the central theme of his work: if we had already assimilated technology as an essential part of being human, what remains of us, of our identity, if we are forced to renounce it?.
