Concetti Chiave
- The novel "Underworld" by Don DeLillo was published in 1997 and opens with a vivid prologue set in a historical baseball game.
- The prologue evokes a sense of nostalgia for American culture, especially the iconic baseball match between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951.
- Key historical figures, such as J. Edgar Hoover, are interwoven into the narrative, adding depth and historical context to the story.
- The baseball, caught by a young boy, becomes a symbolic object, linking various characters and events over four decades.
- The narrative juxtaposes the baseball game with a significant Cold War event, the Russian nuclear test, creating a backdrop of tension and impending threat.
Underworld was written by di Don DeLillo in 1997.
Il prologo e l'evento sportivo
The book opens with a prologue that makes regret not being American, not for affection but to better feel the vibrations of the crowd delirious with Bobby Thomson home run of the launch of Ralph Branca Dodgerr of the historical competition between New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers of October 3, 1951 at the Polo Grounds in New York who scored a memorable moment of baseball, American sport par excellence, almost unknown in our latitudes.
Personaggi e intrecci storici
The game characters of all kinds are present and extraction, some known then passed on the pages of history books, like J. Edgar Hoover, obsessed with a painting: The Triumph of Death, whose reproduction in an advertising flyer he happens in his hands during the game (giving the title to the first chapter).
Popular on the stands there is a little black boy, Martin Cotter who skipped school and jumped the turnstiles to attend the event, it is he, the lucky one who catches the ball in the home run and the ball will be the common thread that pass from hand in hand, stolen, sold, traded, donated, for nearly 40 years, since the beginning of the Cold War in '92, will weave the warp of this immense fresco of American and world history.
Simbolismo e minaccia nucleare
The same day of the game happens an epochal event radically different level: The Russians completed their second nuclear test and the roar mixes and mingles with the roar of the crowd in a dark symbolism that pervades the entire book, a sense of impending threat He will accompany the whole narrative.
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