‘WHITE FEAR’ IN DON DELILLO’S “WHITE NOISE”
‘WHITE FEAR’ IN DON DELILLO’S “WHITE NOISE”

Summary/Abstract: Don DeLillo’s “White Noise” bears the characteristics of postmodern realistic prose. It is a faithful depiction of issues like academic life, consumerism, media, technology, pollution, chemical poisoning, family relationships during the nineteen eighties/ nineties, concerns which undoubtedly are our own, too. The red thread of the novel, though, is the protagonists’ obsession with death, their hopeless struggle with an organic Fear of Death. This article tries to show that DeLillo managed to tackle tragic events, anxieties, and profoundly disturbing apprehensions with subtle irony and humor.

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