Stalin's Murders and the West

[jporter]

> From: Dave Monroe


>..... I would like somehow to
> get back to Pynchon here, think perhaps this Cold war line, not to mention the
> "empowering of the marginalized" might be the way to do it ...

Or any other path that suits your fancy is fine with me. To respond to your
sense of frustration snipped from above, as I confessed earlier on, there is
no way I can match your scholarship here (which I again commend, especially
because it tends toward the political and sociological, and away from the
lit critical). I'm way too busy. But so are many others, who are none the
less interested in Pynchon and these issues.

Which raises a question. How responsible is the novel or fiction for
bringing issues like The Holocaust and its whole context to light in our
culture? Obviously there are plusses and minuses, and it certainly does
result in a ?healthy? debate of the issues, but GR complexifies them, as
well, which leaves room for doubt, or even the danger of getting caught up
in "The Art" of the novel, or sidetracked by purely litcrary concerns. It
can be talismanic at times.

jody