TY - JOUR
AU1 - Di Prete, Laura
AB -  L A U R A D I P R E T E s Don DeLillo's short novel The Body Artist (2001) opens, Lauren Hartke and her husband Rey Robles are at the breakfast table of their rented seaside house in an unnamed coastal town, in what seems an ordinary scene on an ordinary day. While stirring coffee, reading the newspaper, pouring orange juice or milk from the carton, waiting for the toast, and exchanging brief, distracted remarks, the couple performs an apparently familiar ritual. But this is not to be an ordinary day. Rey, a sixty-four-year-old film director, is about to leave for New York and die of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his first wife's apartment. Lauren, the body artist of the title, will return to the isolated cottage by the sea to mourn her traumatic loss. She will find in an empty room on the third floor a strange, unstable, possibly retarded man who may have been there throughout her entire stay with her husband. The Body Artist, as a narrative that stages a scenario of traumatic loss and return through the phantasmatic figure of a "madman in the attic," explores dynamics of psychic intrusion (of 
TI - Don DeLillo's The Body Artist : Performing the Body, Narrating Trauma
JF - Contemporary Literature
DA - 2005-11-28
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-wisconsin-press/don-delillo-s-the-body-artist-performing-the-body-narrating-trauma-K7ThLpEoQT
SP - 483
EP - 510
VL - 46
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -