Modernity In Delillo's Falling Man

destruction finally meet. Postmodern literature shifts form singular reality to a narrative of chaos, a proliferation of realities -popular biography, science fiction, fantasy novel- that have to coexist and collide. Heterogeneity, the diversity of human experience are displayed in all their weakness and atrocities. Fiction falls into reality, reality becomes fiction this is what postmodern literature is about, and because reality as totality can’t be grasped narrative as well presents itself as a bit of a longer novel rather than a complete work in its own right. Realism reenters from the cracks of modernity, it’s more violent and it doesn’t leave space for fantasy. DeLillo’s Falling Man, is based on the concerns of an ordinary man who tries

Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he were sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful

The world has been dehumanized, life felt as intolerable, the rise of Nazism have forced people to succumb to the beauty of brute force and for a majority that moves with the times there are few that refuse to understand because to understand is to justify. In Rhinoceros, postmodern absurdity has the features of the mass uprising of fascism, the tyranny of a metamorphosis that perceives evil as beauty. Bérenger, an ordinary middle-aged man, a semi-autobiographical figure recurring in few plays expressing the author loss and anguish at the absurdity of reality, watches his friends turning one by one into rhinoceroses, allegory of the consciousness of those who capitulate to the black spell of Nazi-propaganda. Only the idealist Bérenger stands alone unchanged against the violence of mass movement: I’m the last man left, and I’m staying that way until the end. I’m not capitulating. In The Killer the perfect harmony of a radiant utopian city is injured by the presence of an irrational killer who drowns his victims in a pool after adducting them there through a weird bit of nonsense: he shows them ‘the Colonel’s photo. After having experienced the death of his would-be fiancée and the senseless indifference of the citizen before the evil, Bérenger finally tracked down the killer, an insignificant small, weak man, ill-shaven, with a torn hat on his head and worn out shoes. And it is in this final monologue