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Author: Don DeLillo

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Now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America’s most celebrated writers.It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism—when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments— are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol’s funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors—experts on security, technology, currency, finance and a few sexual partners—as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future. Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.

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In Part One of COSMOPOLIS, DeLillo primarily examines the lives of two characters. The first and dominant character is Eric Packer, a young hedge fund manager worth tens of billions of dollars, who risks the complete loss of his fortune and fund if the Yen rises. Eric is at the nexus of capital and technology and believes that he can spot and profit from movements in money and information that are unseen by others. Says Eric: "There's an order at some deep level...A pattern that wants to be seen." Says Kinski, his Chief of Theory: "A consciousness such as yours, hypermaniacal, may have contact points beyond the general perception."Meanwhile, the second major character introduced in Part One is Benno Levin, a former trader and generic laborer at Packer Capital, who lost his job. Thinks Benno: "There are great themes running through my mind. The themes of loneliness and human discard. The theme of who do I have when there's no one left."In Part Two, DeLillo examines the tropism toward destruction and death in these two characters. In Eric's case, this tropism manifests as his huge bet on the Yen gradually sours. Then, DeLillo seems to ask: If a man like Eric can't win, will he attempt to take the system down with him? In contrast, the plight of Benno, who was trashed by Eric's cyber-capitalism, represents a different question. Namely: Is there anything a victim of capitalism can do that actually rights the ruthless wrongs inherent to the system?COSMOPOLIS is a surrealistic satire that is tersely hilarious. It begins with the sleepless Eric in his 48-room apartment near the FDR Drive, where he enjoys an atrium, screening room, and shark tank, and ends in an abandoned tenement near the West Side Highway where the characters have no roles to play in life. Along this riches-to-rags continuum, DeLillo supplies innumerable instances of amazing writing and insight. The man, truly, expands what you see. Here, for example, is Eric during his confrontation with Benno."He'd always wanted to become quantum dust, transcending his body mass, the soft tissue over the bones, the muscle and fat. The ideas 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...It would be the master thrust of cyber-capital, to extend the human experience toward infinity as a medium for corporate growth and investment, for the accumulation of profits and vigorous reinvestment."This is not my favorite DeLillo novel. But COSMOPOLIS has great insight and style and is eerily prescient about risk taking on Wall Street, which, like the hubristic Eric Packer, is clearly willing to risk and embrace economic meltdown for big paydays.Recommended.

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