Rushdie/Pynchon

[LBernier at tribune.com]

     Isn't there some study of TWOZ, apparently credible, that asserts it 
     is an economic allegory in support of supports the gold standard for 
     money in America?
     
     You know, there's nothing behind the curtain?
     
     I'll dig it up, if anyone's interested.
     
     Jean.


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Subject: Rushdie/Pynchon
Author:  WillL at fieldschool.com at Internet_tco
Date:    10/22/96 4:33 PM


Date	10/22/96
Subject	Rushdie/Pynchon
>From	WillL
To	Pynchon List
     
Rushdie/Pynchon
     
For those interested in the Pynchon/ Rushdie connection, I strongly recommend 
you read the piece Rushdie did for "The New Yorker" on May 11, 1992 in their 
"Critic At Large" column.  The essay is called "Out of Kansas," and it is about 
Rushdie's analysis of and personal reaction to the classic 1939 MGM "Wizard of 
Oz."  While Rushdie never writes about Pynchon in this essay, he reads the 
classic American children's story as a central story (or kind of "myth") about 
our culture and finds in "Oz" some subversive, unsettling and frightening 
elements that prove pretty definitively (for me, anyway) that the "There's no 
place like home" ending is the movie's essential false note.  This take on a 
children's story -- and "Oz" in particular -- is reminiscent of "Gravity's 
Rainbow."  I think it's a marvelous essay, but then I'd rank "Midnight's 
Children" very near the top of my personal list.
     
-- Will Layman