The concept of love as a disease, carrying with it both emotional and physical side effects until the victims eventual descent into death, is an interesting one, but despite the fact that the marketing campaign around this book as highlighted the fact that its about love as a dangerous plague, as highly contagious, and crippingly terminal, this isnt at all what Delirium appears to be about.
It toys with the notion that love, a disease, is the cause of civil unrest and turbulence, and that outlawing this emotion would result in a more placid and progressive society. Suddenly that 90 day countdown seems rather less appealingĭelirium is a new contender in the somewhat glutted field of YA dystopian fiction, and is Olivers sophomore effort, following the best-selling Before I Fall. She will no have to fear the diseased spectre of love, will no longer have to cautiously navigate the social waters, will no longer have those wistful memories of her mother, a woman who killed herself after a lifetime of illness at the hands of amor deliria nervosalove.īut although Lenas wordview has taken a long eighteen years of careful propaganda and influence to create, its shattered just as quickly when she locks eyes with a boy, and finds herself exhibiting all of the early stages of the same disease that claimed her mother. Rather than being fearful of its repercussions, she is relieved. Stringent social conditioning helps guide young citizens through the complexities of these norms, while upon reaching their majority a more comprehensive solution is offered: a procedure, not so far removed from a lobotomy, that results in a total dulling of the emotions. Seventeen-year-old Lena lives in a world where love is taboo, where passion is anathema, where poetry and art have fallen by the wayside, and romantic tendencies must be put down at all costs.
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