Hubert, "Remedios Varo & Benjamin Peret"

[Miriam Hardin]

Well, my Lycos account burped this back to me today (02-08-01), so I'm going to try this again:

"ng ld" <ngld40 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Hubert, "Remedios Varo & Benjamin Peret"
>
>>
>>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. 

This is something that also has troubled me in Hollander's JFK/COL49 
essay.  Why does Varo have to = Varro when there is so much significance 
to be found in the artwork?  I think Stefan Mattessich does a nice job chasing this idea in:

"Ekphrasis, Escape, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49." 
 _Postmodern Culture_ 8.3 (1998):  <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v008/8.3mattessich.html
>

(Unfortunately, I think you have to have an account with Johns Hopkins's Project Muse to access this.)

Miriam Hardin

Amended to add that I also found a text-only version of the article that seems to be available to all:

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.598/8.3mattessich.txt





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