Re: DeLillo + the public figure

Kay/Bill Burbidge (burbidge@mb.sympatico.ca)
Wed, 13 May 1998 18:43:24 -0500

> Also, In _Mao II_, Gray is working on a failed novel and though I have no
> way of knowing, my heart believes mr. salinger is working on material that
> isn't failing...(just silent for now) will
> 
Just as a side nte, the novel that Bill is working on is not failed,
just unfinished.  DeLillo deliberatly did this as in an interview
regarding said novel by Bill, he mentioned that published novels are
never finished, they're given up on.  DeLillo himself doesn't believe
this, but he oftentimes has his characters represent views other than
his own (which I can only imagine to be difficult)

:o)  G.