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Ilse wrote: "Thanks a lot, Fede! Looking at this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... I have to admit I have hardly read any dystopian fiction (I'd rather read dystopian non-fiction, ..."
You're welcome Ilse! Since you love Russian literature, you might like " We " by Zamyatin, that's a good one: it inspired Orwell himself!

"Lust for life is strangely and chillingly absent."

So true! Fear of death is not the same thing as lust for life.

Yules wrote: ""Lust for life is strangely and chillingly absent."

So true! Fear of death is not the same thing as lust for life."
Yules, isn’t it strange, thinking about what DeLillo wrote on the cryonic wishes of the filthy rich, almost ten years ago, in the current political context? And yet, there seems so little joy in the one and only life of these people…

Ilse wrote: "Yules, isn’t it strange, thinking about what DeLillo wrote on the cryonic wishes of the filthy rich, almost ten years ago, in the current political context? And yet, there seems so little joy in the one and only life of these people…"

I wish I could say I have a better handle on joy than they do; all I know is that it comes when it comes. But I agree it doesn't seem to visit them very often--I think it finds them inhospitable :P

Honest review. It is always a pleasure reading your in-depth insights.

P.B. wrote: "Honest review. It is always a pleasure reading your in-depth insights."
Thank you very much for stopping by and reading this, P.B. Apparently it was a bit unwise to pick this one as a first encounter with DeLillo…

Yules wrote: I wish I could say I have a better handle on joy than they do; all I know is that it comes when it comes. But I agree it doesn't seem to visit them very often--I think it finds them inhospitable :P
Oh, that is so astutely put, Yules :D! And I like the image of joy as a visitor that you now put in my mind - a visitor you can invite, but who you can not force to stop by.