Gnostic Pynchon

[Richard Romeo]

>
>Richard Romeo wrote:
>
> > 2nd read of The Gnostic Pynchon--quite enjoyable.
>
>The Gnostic Pynchon, Dwight Eddins, Cutters University Press, Bloomington 
>and
>Indianapolis (1990).
>
>Eddins is a wild ride, beginning and ending (talk about reading backwards 
>and
>forwards)  with a quote from Harold Bloom, 'Pynchon is a Gnosis without
>transcendence,' and offers, "but it is a gnosis haunted by the possibility
>therof--both positively and negatively--and by a characteristically 
>modernist
>nostalgia for a quality of human consciousness that a logos beyond human 
>agency
>seems once to have empowered."
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>I've read The Magic Mountain--I don't wanna read it again, Mom, I wanna 
>watch the Simpsons, damnit.

Eddins' book is quite good.  I'm learning this strange new world. quite 
intriguing (not that I understand half of it).

rich


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