Hubert, "Remedios Varo & Benjamin Peret"

[Dave Monroe]

This was my immediate response to Hollander's essay as
well, and I'd forgotten that Mattesich essay.  Was
much cooler with all the illustrations and hyperlinks
intact (surrent issues of Postmodern Culture, or, at
least, selections from them, used to be available free
to all online in all their glory, at least), but I
believe the relevant works can be found easily enough,
on or off line, so ... 

But, while Hollander no doubt phrases this rather more
strongly, I would not discount the Varro overtone
there, esp. given frequent characterizations of those
Pynchonian texts as Menippean satires.  I'd give
Hollander credit for noticing it, at least.  He does
indeed follow particular, peculiar harmonic lines in
those texts, but tehy are earcatching, they do tend to
harmonize ...

But I'm still intrigued by the possible filiation to
Varo's erstwhile companion, the surrealist poet,
Benjamin Peret, as well.  Again, that mysterious,
multivalent figure of "Rosa" in those Je sublime poems
(only a few of which are translated into English in
the U of Nebraska Press Peret anthology, Death to the
Pigs and Other Writings).  And recall the surrealist
publications, View and VVV ...

--- Miriam Hardin <miriam.hardin at lycos.com> wrote:

> 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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