Pynchon as propaganda

[jbor]

on 3/4/03 11:13 PM, Mutualcode at aol.com at Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:

> The novel is very much of its time.

Of course. As all texts are. But being "of its time" doesn't automatically
make it a novel about the Vietnam War. Or about Iraq.

best

> In many ways it defined "the times" and
> how and why things had come to be the way they were. To ignore that
> and attempt to label such readings as "propagandistic" is rather odd.