![]() ![]() ![]() In a curious, unpaginated afterword to his fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Libra, Don DeLillo proffers his novel as "a way of thinking" about an event that has remained persistently, often threateningly, mired within "gloom in a chronicle of unknowing." The preceding work of fiction is tendered as a counter to both the obfuscating speculation and the sinister "half-facts" that render the assassination an essential moment in the United States's recurrent confrontation with traumatic history, with the trauma that is the historical event. ![]()
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