Conference paper

The Concept of Time in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega

Nikolina G. Tomić ; University of Belgrade
Milica S. Stanković ; University of Belgrade

Abstract

Temporality is one of the key aspects that contribute to the reshaping of the narrative tendencies of literary modernism, thus leading
to the emergence of new narrative strategies associated with postmodern literature. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize its representation in postmodern literature and theory, focusing on one of the notable works that illustrate this phenomenon. Influenced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s theory of the final aim of evolution, defined as the omega point, Don DeLillo’s novel of the same name explores, in Peter Boxall’s words, the formal balance between cinematic time, urban time, and desert time. In that sense, the paper is particularly concerned with the plurality of time, prevalent in literary postmodernism. In order to provide insight into this matter, it is also essential to shed light on how it is represented in the works of Jorge Luis Borges, who exerted significant influence on DeLillo’s depiction of the concept of time in the contemporary world.

Keywords

DeLillo; Point Omega; time; postmodernism; Borges

Hrčak ID:

220864

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/220864

Publication date:

8.6.2019.

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