Fidel & Cuba

[Fakhereddine Berrada]

Paul, how about the Hereros in GR? Not the Empty Ones, though. Enzian
comes to mind as a possible representative of that voice that tries to
speak without reproducing the basic assumptions of Western power and its
(dominant) cultural manifestations. His position, however, is made
ambivalent by his complex relationship with Blicero, hence his Rilkean
name, his language, and his physical presence within the Geographic and
cultural West. But as always in Pynchon, this manifestation of a different
(countercultural) voive remains very marginal and more a promise or a
possibility than an actual presence assuming power. What do you think?