globalization & Pynchon?

[Phil Wise]

Cool, I'll look for that when I re-read it.  My first time through I was
having enough trouble following what was happening (if I may be so corageous
as to admit that I usually don't start to "see" P's novels until read no 2,
or even 3, in the case of GR!)

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <DMillison at ftmg.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:18 AM
Subject: RE: globalization & Pynchon?


> Pynchon offers up quite a bit for consideration in M&D, published in '97.
He
> seems to have kept up to date with his politics.  Prominent in this novel
is
> a savage critique of the corporation in the time of its infancy, which of
> course lies at the heart of the continuing colonialization of the world by
> global capital. Intertextual connections with Vineland, GR, and V. would
> seem to make explicit the continuity of Pynchon's political concerns in
M&D
> with those of the earlier novels.
>
> Phil Wise:
>  we may have to await a future Pynchon novel for
> him to actually directly concern himself with the phenomenon.
>
>