The Shape of Things to Come

Resumen del libro

America recognizes itself as a voice of power and righteousness, speaking to itself in a message broadcast to the whole world. This is a fundamental part of American identity - which is to say there is no American identity without a sense of portent and doom. This is the other side of the story - the urge of the nation to pass judgement on itself - something which came sharply into focus after the terrorist attacks on New York City.
In The Shape of Things to Come, Greil Marcus untangles the story of America's covenant with itself - and the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives. In a thrilling account that moves back and forth between culture and politics, and with deep dives into the work of a few artists who strikingly dramatize the challenge America poses to each of its citizens - Herman Melville and Raymond Chandler, Philip Roth and David Lynch, Bill Pullman and Sheryl Lee, David Thomas of Pere Ubu and Allen Ginsberg - Marcus captures a story that is constantly being remade and retold, in voices at once paranoid and sardonic, inspiring and terrifying.

Biografía del autor

Felipe Hernández