GRGR(5) Katje and the Nazis

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Doug Millison wrote:

> At 5:27 PM -0400 7/9/99, Bernier, Jeannie wrote:
> >To which I must ask, respectfully, do you believe that this is ALL the novel
> >is about?
> >Ý
> >Jean
>
> GR is about lots of things, and I've posted on more than a few of them. I
> think the political dimensions are important, as well as the religious, the
> mythological, the historical, & etc. I find it interesting to observe -- a
> hoot, really -- a critical stance so dedicated to a particular view that it
> denies very obvious references and allusions in Pynchon's texts. Like many
> P-listers, I'm more dilettante than anything else, easily move from one
> view to another, taking a rather catholic approach, although I certainly
> return to my favored hobby-horses from time to time.
>
> What do you think the novel is about?
>
>

The Present Dispensation--American History and Solipsism. And Thomas R. Pynchon,
naturally.

Terrance




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