Varsava

[prozak at anus.com]

> In his TP and Postmodern Liberalism, Varsava argues that "Pynchon's work
> embrace[es] a determinate political stance [and] political philosophy.
> In particular, he contends that "Pynchon's two domestic novels [CL49,
> VL] provide a powerful, if often diffuse and direct, defense of American
> political liberalism." The liberalism that Vasarva has in mind here is,
> not "a retro-liberalism determined by the social and political
> exigencies of 1776 or the 1930s, but a "postmodern" version shaped by
> both liberal traditions and those cultural circumstances and impetuses
> peculiar to the late twentieth century. Certainly, irony, self-doubt,
> and even self-deprecation figure more prominently in Pynchon's
> liberalism than in classical manifestations" (64). 

Sounds like someone trying to hijack Pynchon's work into an overly 
simplistic worldview ;)

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