Don DeLillo’s Libra: A Study of Facts and Fiction
Keywords:
Narratology, Crime Novels, Historical FactsAbstract
In the twentieth century there was a boom of true crime novels. These texts were experimental and enriched with narratology. These works of art had marked a watershed in contemporary American Literature in their attempt ‘to mingle factual reportage with novelistic style’. All of them became famous for the true-crime depiction after undergoing an extensive research of the criminal minds, and their backgrounds. So this essay examines the relationship between the narration of the historical and the fictional in Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988), a text that foregrounds the difficulties posed by historical facts by reinventing them in fiction. The aim is to study how this novel melds historical fact and fiction.
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