GRGR(3) talking dog 44.20

[keith woodward]

kw:
>> It's
>> certainly a surreal enough novel to have a talking dog, but it's also a
>> complex enough narrative in the novel to have a framed narrative (if you
>> will) through Pointsman.
>
rj:
>I guess if you need to force the text to conform to naturalist or
>Modernist narrative paradigms then this is one way to go. But I think
>it's a given that both Pynchon and postmodernist critiques countenance
>and indeed offer multiple readings of text, potentially limitlessly so.
>In other words, the indeterminacy is deliberate.

I'm not sure if I understand your objection.  The indeterminacy of the text
is what I have been arguing for.  I don't see how mention/use of a framed
narrative within the text (not my mention of it) would lock any text into a
naturalist or a modernist mode, nor how it strictly falls under their
paradigms.

Keith W (who thinks Katje is one of the saddest figures in the text)