Blicero

[jbor]

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>From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
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> isn't Pynchon doing the same to Blicero/Weissmann as a
> representative of pre- and WWII-era Nazi German in his portrayal of
> him as a monster, diseased, predatory, in love with death?

As well as Miklos Thanatz's portrait and assessment of Blicero's character,
the text provides the reader with those of Enzian, Katje, Gottfried and
Pokler, each of whom are depicted as having known the man somewhat better
than Thanatz (and they aren't about to shit their pants at the sight of
their own shadows at any moment as he is). They present quite different
pictures of Blicero's character, behaviour and personality imo.

And, of course, one of the final portraits of Blicero is the text's, and
there he is quite a pathetic figure imo. (724.1-18)

I'm not sure that there are any such equivocations about Marvy at any stage
in the novel.

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