v. and orlando

[Terrance]

Go for it! Sounds great. Check out "To The Light House" too.
Maybe you can compare Time, the backwardness and reversals,
Genesis reversed and War in the middle section of "To The
Lighthouse, America reversed, Slothrop reversed by War in
GR. In any event, you get to read three wonderful books,
hey-try that Nostromo Mr. Romeo suggested too. 

Good luck, 

TF



julian nasti wrote:
> 
> hey everybody i'm back...
> 
> in senior english our major assignment this semester entails having to
> analyse a particular text and any appropriation that may have been derived
> from it (bit of a tautology there), for example, _heart of darkness_ and
> _apocalypse now_, _hamlet_ and _rosencrantz and guildernstein_, the list is
> effecively interminable, especially when the boundaries between
> appropriation and intertexuality become blurred...
> 
> does anyone think that pynchon's _V._ may be seen as an appropriation of
> virginia woolf's _orlando_? I've only just started reading _orlando_ but
> are'nt they both ostensibly about the same thing, a woman assuming various
> (cultural and sexual) manifestations and apparently materializing ex vacuo
> at various points in european history?
> 
> i could be completely off the track, but i'm ready for the consequent
> inevitable barrage of abuse.
> 
> julian.
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