re Re: SLSL influences & Pynchon a '60s student radical?

[pynchonoid]

--- vze422fs at verizon.net wrote:
> He blew contemporary literary theory out of the
> water. 

No argument here. And, far from teaching Pynchon how
to write fiction, I think literary theorists are still
trying to catch up with TRP.

By 1984 when he writes the SL Intro, if TRP was
reading that sort of thing, he would have had had lots
of time to catch up on the French philosophers' take
on Nietzsche, the structuralists, the
post-structuralists, deconstruction, the whole
blossoming PoMo scene.  He doesn't mention any of that
in the Intro.  It's as if, in terms of the development
of his writing, lit-crit doesn't exist at all. 
Towards the end of the Intro, when he begins to
acknowledge that his writing gradually began to move
out of what he's callin his apprentice and into his
journeyman phase, he doesn't mention literary theory
as an influence, either; instead he says, "I was also
beginning to shut up and listen to the American voices
around me, even to shift my eyes away from printed
sources and take a look at American nonverbal reality.
I was out on the road at last, getting to visit the
places Kerouac had written about. ..."


-Doug






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