New Pynchon question

[Lawrence Warner]

Does it bode ill that my first post to this list disappeared into 
nowhere?  Thank goodness for my 'messages sent' file.  Anyway, here it is 
a few days later and I'm *still* interested in this and would appreciate 
any feedback.  Thanks--

Lawrence Warner
U. of Pa.

According to lwarner:
> From lwarner Sat Nov  5 12:16:20 1994
> 
> Well, I'm brand new on the list so I don't know what you have or haven't 
> discussed.  But I do have a question which I hope is something new.  I'm 
> interested in the question of Pynchon's knowledge of/response to the 
> concentration camps--not just as the challenge to notions of human 
> goodness etc. that we all face, but more specifically, for instance, 
> whether he might have thought about the destruction of the camps after 
> the war as an erasure of memory.  Were there news reports about this in 
> the early '60s?  Has anyone written about Pynchon and the Holocaust?  I'm 
> thinking of Hilarius's confession in *Lot 49* in relation to this.  In my 
> reading of criticism of that book not only have I never seen mention of 
> Oedipa's experience in the context of the post-Holocaust world; I've 
> never seen anyone treat Hilarius as anything other than "one of Oedipa's 
> men who abandons her." 
> 
> I'd appreciate any reactions.
> 
> Best,
> Lawrence Warner
> University of Pennsylvania
> lwarner at english.upenn.edu
> 
> According to justin:
> > 
> > well . . . it appears that the pynchon discussion group has succumbed to the
> > forces of entropy and faded into a state of inert, terrifying sameness.
> >                       God help us all.
> >                                  justin
> > 
> 
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