antw. re: pynchon's germany

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

in gr the political us/german cross-review contains also the american nuclear 
weapon program which is present inside the novel in gestalt of several hiroshima 
refs (including the kreplach parable); the book's final rocket is, significantly 
enough, a nuclear one (of soviet origin, no?), thus a child of both, peenemünde 
& los alamos ... peace! kai  

lorentzen-nicklaus schrieb:
> in that movie by the dubini brothers someone, probably christine wexler, 
> reported that trp, while writing "gravity's rainbow", liked to wear
>  (original) 
> nazi clothing in public now and then which helped him to write the book cause
>  it 
> enabled him to get real with the scandalous thesis that the vietnam war
>  turned 
> the usa into something similar like the third reich. "we were the new nazis
>  and 
> tom was writing down the story". if one asks what political germany means to 
> pynchon - think of the herero genocide of 1904, of von braun, hilarious or
>  karl 
> bopp - the answer could be this: the german mirror shows america the dangers
>  of 
> modern totalitarism. racism inside the country, führerkult, aggressive 
> nationalism, imperialistic warfare and genocide. here the usa, since ww2 
> definitely the world's leading nation, are always endangered to lose their, 
> well, balance. in pynchon's work this danger is metonymically expressed 
> especially in two real world events: the naturalization of von braun and his 
> team (later echoed by the character of karl bopp) and the genocide of 1904
>  which 
> is, in my opinion, so important in v and gr because it allows pynchon to
>  connect 
> germany's imperialistic history to the enslavement of africans america has 
> made herself guilty of ~ kai       
>