ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at tracing the possible flow experience of the reader of DeLillo's short novel that is potentially influenced by the narrative discourse, which imitates neuropsychological structures that have been captured in the theories of image schemas and forms of vitality. There seems to be a strong relationship between the structure and the effect of literary texts and that the experience of having, living, and being a body plays a crucial role in it. The analysis aims at anchoring the textualization of psychological trauma in cognitive and neural processes and at exploring the nature of the organization of a seemingly abstract and disorganized narrative discourse. The disorganized representations of space and the movements are DeLillo's dominant representational techniques in this novel. The representations of space are influenced by inconsistent, fragmented, or partly false impressions of space and motion.
