What was it? Looking for either authoritative answer or revelations from the novel regarding how or why the disaster happens to Bellona.Īs William Gibson famously observed (in his forward to the Vintage Edition), Dhalgren "is not there to be finally understood. (or is it? Or will it?) The disaster may have caused something very weird to happen with time, because sometimes burned buildings are back the way they were and sometimes they aren’t. The disaster, which has included riots and fire, lack of electricity and infrastructure, still intermittently seems to going on in the Kid’s present. Into this disaster zone comes a young man-poet, lover, and adventurer-known only as the Kid. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Something has happened there … The population has fled. Delany’s Dhalgren became his most commercially successful endeavor.įirst published in January, 1975 by Bantam, Dhalgren has sometimes been described as an experimental novel, or a circular novel.īellona is a city at the dead center of the United States.
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