Delillo’s ‘Truth’
Mateo Hernandez Delillo’s ‘Truth’ Libra. If you’re anything like me, you came into this book expecting something totally different. A simple history, perhaps, that is truthful and accurate regarding every event that occurred. But in the end, after we get an extremely complex conspiracy, Don Delillo leaves you with even more questions that beg to be answered. Although there are many different paths this post could take, I’d like to skim the surface of Lee Harvey Oswald’s story, from his early childhood up to his first assassination attempt on General Walker. The best way to go about this post is to start from the ‘beginning’, aka, what the government told us happened, and what the average American would believe from their story. Then dive into one of the first conspiracies of the world, Don Delillo’s Libra, whose goal is to satisfy the need for a believable narrative. Delillo takes the facts of Lee’s broken background, adds a believable narrative that gives a reasonable explan...