"Russell makes an extremely interesting and
important proposal about proper names."
— "Notes on Russell," by Curtis Brown
"The Names (1982) is the seventh novel of
American novelist Don DeLillo. The work, set
mostly in Greece, is primarily a series of
character studies, interwoven with a plot about
a mysterious 'language cult' that is behind
a number of unexplained murders."
For other fiction about language cults,
see Dan Brown.