Hubert, "Remedios Varo & Benjamin Peret"

[Dave Monroe]

Yes, did want Eddins there (The Gnostic Pynchon),
that's been bugging me all night, but I only quibble
with Hollander for not following both forks in the
road there (an option one has in a reading, if not in
history).  Varro is an interesting and resonant echo
of Varo, regardless of Hollander's neglect of Remedios
V. (!).  I also take issue with his surface/depth
model, for the reasons I take issue with any
surface/depth model. But Hollander is well worth
reading, his annotations are eminently useful whether
or not one aggrees with his premises or conclusions. 
Grant's neglect of Hollander's Thelonious
Monk/McClintic Sphere article is a glaring oversight
in his Companion to V.   But I gotta run, so ...


--- ng ld <ngld40 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >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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