Imagining the Holocaust

[Dave Monroe]

No misunderstanding whatsoever, and it's quite possibly inevitable that just about anything touching on the Holocaust in whatever way is going to be problematic to
somebody somehwere, so ... and there is no doubt much in that Pynchonian ouevre that is problematic to somebody somewhere as well, inc. maybe even me.  Think much recent
debate (such as it was) might well be the result of various commentators here attempting to claim Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, as somehow less problematic, perhaps maybe
even more agreeable, to their own sense of just what a "problem" might be than to that of others.  As with, say, the Bible or Shakespeare or whatever for some, I'm sure
we'd all like to feel that Pynchon is somehow "on our side."  Which is why I'm curious as to what ultimately, say, jbor, might be claiming about the book, in re: the
Holocaust.  in re: history, politics, aesthetics, whatever, in general.  For starters.  Me, I didn't really cruise in with a full-blown Reading all ready to deploy, just
making notes, offering observations, is all.  Maus, by the way, is Art Spegelman, if that's what you mean, but let me know if R. Crumb ever did anything on the
Holocaust--R. Crumb on ANYTHING is bound to be "problematic," albeit interesting and even enjoyable nonetheless ...