Gravity's Rainbow, A book about war?

[Kevin Won]

This is yet another way that GR (IMHO) mimics _Moby Dick_.  In one sense both texts are very specific and historically accurate, in another the two texts really don't have much to do with their manifest subject, but use the bombastic backdrop to probe very subtle internal/psych/epistimological issues.

kevin


>>> "s~Z" <keith at pfmentum.com> 01/31/01 10:00AM >>>
>>>Go Saoraid,
Eric R<<<

And go Eric. I think you have articulated my opinion about the
holocaust in GR as well. Neither the war, nor the holocaust, are
central to GR. Pynchon is brilliantly addressing the deeper issues, in
all of their complexity, behind the historical events of that era. So,
yes, the book is in a sense 'about' the war and the holocaust. But
both are given scant direct attention because he is dealing with the
big picture; spiritually, economically, intellectually,
philosophically, and politically.
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