Warped and Distilled?

[RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com]

hmmm... so where was pynchon's fiction thusly described? what was the context 
for the subject-line's phrase? to me "warped and distilled" sounds like an 
accolade for a writer of satire....

d.h. lawrence and v. woolf seem a bit on the un-comical side for pynchon 
antecedents (how about swift, melville, joyce..?). 

a-and i recall the 'time passes' section of 'to the lighthouse' seeming more 
about v.'s (woolf, that is) infatuation with death than "history bereft of human
experience / artistic expression"... just an opinion... (cough... what was the 
painter character's name.... lily briscoe or something..?)...

anyhow,
--rwilson

"perhaps my brains have turned to sand" -- eno

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Subject: Warped and Distilled?
Author:  "Terrance F. Flaherty" <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net> at INTERNET
Date:    1/12/99 7:11 PM


     
This is a rather odd way to describe Mr. Pynchon's fiction. At the end 
of the twentieth century, novelists like Pynchon continue to explore and 
develop new subject matter, new style, and new technique. In addition, 
Pynchon and others are engaged in a radical reconsideration of the 
relationship between reality and fiction; a consideration begun at the 
beginning of this century by their Modernist predecessors. Are the 
historical novels of D.H. Lawrence(The Rainbow, Women in Love) 
"fable-ized" truths? The cultural changes he describes in these novels 
are as real in the conventional and historical sense as the Vietnam War 
and student protests of the 1960s. Progressive industrialization is a 
powerful force in these novels, but the history we read in D.H. 
Lawrence's fiction is concerned with human consciousness and the 
unconscious life of characters living and loving in the age of 
accelerating cultural transformation. Lawrence's fiction is not 
distilled or warped commentary anymore than Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse' 
is a "fabel-ized representation of possible truths."  In the middle of 
this novel we get an idea of what history-bereft of human experience and 
artistic expression would mean.
     
     
     
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