Don DeLillo is an author who pays special attention to language, time, and space when constructing characters’ identity as well their milieu. Considering this aspect of his fiction, the present article looks at how cinematic adaptations novels translate space, use language onto screen. Two DeLillo’s have been adapted so far: Cosmopolis (DeLillo 2003) by David Cronenberg in a 2012 movie same nam...

If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our...

Who knows what I want to do? Who knows what anyone wants to do? How can you be sure about something like that? Isn’t it all a question of brain chemistry, signals going back and forth, electrical energy in the cortex? How do you know whether something is really what you want to do or just some kind of nerve impulse in the brain. Some minor little activity takes place somewhere in this unimporta...