GRGR(5) Katje and the Nazis

[Bernier, Jeannie]

I also think it is about a great many things - the holocaust definitely, how
technology makes us better and better at genocide (imagine if Katje's
ancestors had had the atom bomb) - How we as humans somehow go on living
within all of the madness that, by rights, should drive us mad.

My question posed to you was simply to ascertain whether you could agree
with some of the other posters that the novel is about more than just the
holocaust, because, IMHO, your defense of that position sometimes leads this
particular reader to believe that you can accept no other theme than "the
holocaust, the holocaust" - And this reader believes that would be a very
narrow focus indeed, and one which our boy could have dispensed with in a
great fewer pages.

However, it appears that you do not believe it is only the holocaust, so I
will leave off this thread.

Jean

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Millison [mailto:millison at online-journalist.com]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 10:19 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: GRGR(5) Katje and the Nazis


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?



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