Hubert, "Remedios Varo & Benjamin Peret"

[ng ld]

>
>This, by the way, is one of my quibbles with Charles
>Hollander, who rightly notes that the use, mention of
>the Remedios Varo paintings in The Crying of Lot 49
>aludes to the Menippean satires of Marcus Terentius
>(!) Varro (!!),

I don't get it. Varo = Varro? Once Hollander makes this
very questionable connection he builds on it and then
he builds another essay on top of that. But it
seems that Hollander never gave much consideration
to Varo because he never recognized how significant she
was to his fiction. You can search the archives and discover
that it was not Hollander but rather another list
member that read three books on Varo and posted
his responses and links to the paintings. Hollander
says Varo is Varro, but that doesn't make any sense. He
also, as you can tell, sees in the painting what is
not there and attributes to it his own tapestry reading
while ignoring how the painting (here you want Cowart, btw, I don't
recall Cowart's discussion of the Rose, I remember Eddin's
discussion of it though, what page in Cowart? )
functions in the story.

but seems to all but dismiss the
>(obvious, I think) relevance of Varo's paintings
>themselves, and does not explore the possible
>resonances--even to Hollander's own characterization
>of Pynchon--to be found in her other works, not to
>mention in her own connections, biography.  Again,
>from Hubert ...

hmmmmmmmm....


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