MDMD(13): Fathers and sons

[David Morris]

>From: Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net>
>Chapter 20 offers some beautiful thoughts on Charles Mason, as he is 
>presented as the father of two sons, while at the same time having a 
>difficult relationshiop with his own father.

How many would say prior to MD that such personal relationships held high 
standing in Pynchon's fiction?  Might these be parodied in MD's "Ghastly 
Fop?"  Pynchon's fiction has before typically supressed character and 
melodrama in favor of "high concept," at least it seems to me.  There are 
many examples, and isn't the "higher" concept why he is so sought after?  
And, MalignD, how does this square against Nabakov's advice re. 
"idea-driven" fiction?

Just a thought,
David Morris

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