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Title: Cosmopolis
Author: Don DeLillo
Narrator: Will Patton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-03-16
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Eric Packer is a 28-year-old multibillionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-21st-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey to get a haircut.
Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the president is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by antiglobalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target....
An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's Bonfire or Ellis' Psycho, Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.
Members Reviews:
Cosmopolis: existential quest of a meditator
It is a visionary, thought-provoking, poem-liked fiction I have ever read. The prose is beautifully written, and the dialogues are extraordinary, poetical, and profound. They are full of philosophical sense, especially existentialism.
Eric Parker, a 28-year-old billionaire currency speculator, needed a haircut. Regardless of all sensible and rational advises, he insisted to be on the one-way road to his preferred barber's, where his childhood memories kept safe, and where he could fall asleep mindfulnessly. On his ride slowly across Manhattan amid traffic jams and anti-capitalist protests, he didn't stop searching for "meanings" of this material world as he kept meeting with his people (IT consultants, arts consultant, chief of finance and chief of theory) discussing various issues. He wanted to acquire the Rothko Chapel, keep track of the yen, and he did his daily medical checkup as usual. Meanwhile, he intentionally to lose all of his money and belongings, bit by bit, piece by piece, just seems like he wanna get rid of everything and prepare himself for a fall, into an immaterial and metaphysical unknown.
"He'd always wanted to become quantum dust, transcending his body mass, the soft tissue over the bones, the muscle and fat. The idea was to live outside the given limits, in a chip, on a disk, as data, in whirl, in radiant spin, a consciousness saved from void."
"He'd come to know himself, untranslatably, through his pain."
Eric Parker, he was no hero, he was no Icarus; he was only a meditator, having been thrown into the world.
Typical DeLillo Book--a bit crazy, fun, and different all mixed together.
I picked up Cosmopolis as part of my endeavor to get more into the writing of Don DeLillo and I came away impressed with the book and his interesting albeit sometimes herky-jerky style of writing. This book is about a man named Eric Packer who we find one early morning in New York trying to do two things: get a haircut and make a huge bet on the fall of the yen. The rest of the day (and the book) we find Eric driving around in the most tricked-out, secure, over the top limo (with a built in toilet) running into people who are all part of his life in some way and having brief interactions with them--most ending in some sort of sexual transaction. He does this with his employees, security guards, and his wife-although it is unclear if it is actually his current wife or ex-wife or mysteriously both.
