'I will call Yurick and DeLillo "epistemological" writers, in the sense that for both the central "problem" to be solved formally is this ineradicable tension between fragmented, private experience and the "scientific" explanation of the world. Both, in other words, eschew the facile and conventional ways of ignoring the problem and the tension: continuing to tell individual stories and destinies (boy meets girl, etc.) in a world of billions of living beings for whom those individual stories are surely no longer very significant; or illustratively and "sociologically" offering this or that individual destiny as though it could still "represent" or be "typical" or "characteristic" of social laws in general.'
- Fredric Jameson, "The Names, and Richard A (review)"
