re Re: SLSL influences

[pynchonoid]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> Are there authors who speak of lit-crit as an
> influence in their writing? I
> thought lit-crit was something that was done by
> readers.


The argument's been offered, that Pynchon somehow is
responding directly to literary theoreticians, setting
out deliberately to embody PoMo principles in his
writing, or some such. I haven't paid much attention
to it, frankly, when it's come up here in the past. I
think he was too busy writing V., COL49, and GR in the
60s and early 70s to be paying much attention to
literary theory.  By the time he publishes Vineland in
'90, he knows enough to poke gentle fun at Deleuze and
Guattari, so it seems likely that he's done some
reading in that vein, but I doubt it had much
influence at all prior to the publication of GR.

-Doug


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