Umjetnica tijela

Umjetnica tijela

Don Delillo

"Body Artist" (2001), a short novel by American writer Don DeLillo, explores the depths of grief, identity, and the boundaries between reality and art. The novel is a subtle meditation on solitude, creativity, and healing, where language melts into feelin

Lauren Hartke, a performance artist, lives with her husband, Rey Robles, a film director, in an isolated house. The novel begins with a daily breakfast, but the idyll is interrupted by Rey's suicide. Lauren, devastated by grief, continues to work on performances that explore the body and movement. In the house, she discovers the mysterious Mr. Tuttle, a fragile man who speaks in fragments, repeating Rey's voice and predicting events. Is he real or a projection of her trauma? Lauren films and cherishes him, using him for her art. Tuttle disappears, and Lauren creates new performances, embodying Rey and Tuttle, transforming loss into art.

DeLillo, known for works such as "White Noise" and "Underworld", creates a minimalist, poetic text here - a mixture of ghost stories and existential rehearsal. The novel criticizes the superficiality of everyday life, celebrates the body as a medium of identity, and asks questions: how to retell trauma? What remains after death?

Original title
The Body Artist
Translation
Marijana Javornik Čubić
Editor
Ervin Jahić
Graphics design
Indira Kos
Dimensions
21 x 14 cm
Pages
119
Publisher
Hena Com, Zagreb, 2002.
 
Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
Language: Croatian.
ISBN
978-9-53651-063-4

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