About This Novel
Like Joyce's masterpiece "Ulysses," DeLillo's "Metropolis" is a story that takes place in one day. Twenty-eight-year-old billionaire Eric Parker is a talented asset manager. His nature is to constantly grab new things from the world. One day in April 2000, Eric was sitting in his limousine, planning to get a haircut. Along the way, he kept receiving experts in various fields and discussed with them the rise and fall of the Japanese currency. He discovers that New York is actually at a standstill: the president's motorcade is passing through the city, a rapper's funeral is underway, a violent anti-globalization demonstration is taking place in Times Square... His limousine is heading toward an increasingly uncertain future. In this novel, plot is not the first thing. For DeLillo, plot is simply a vehicle for his poignant and entertaining observations and reflections on contemporary American society. Through fragmented scenes, the novel shows the relationship between alienation and fantasy, art and commerce, reality and imagination, sex and death, global market and terrorism, and the real world composed of all these is like a kaleidoscope of postmodern discourse.
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