Don DeLillo’s The Ivory Acrobat (1988) is a short story set in Athens during a sequence of earthquakes. Through internal focalization on the protagonist Kyle, an American expat, the author explores trauma, identity, and dislocation. The seismic shocks expose contemporary subject fragilities, revealing how catastrophe fractures the self and how resilience arises through the acceptance of difference.
Don DeLillo, The Ivory Acrobat
Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici
2025-01-01
Abstract
Don DeLillo’s The Ivory Acrobat (1988) is a short story set in Athens during a sequence of earthquakes. Through internal focalization on the protagonist Kyle, an American expat, the author explores trauma, identity, and dislocation. The seismic shocks expose contemporary subject fragilities, revealing how catastrophe fractures the self and how resilience arises through the acceptance of difference.File in questo prodotto:
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