Blicero's "politics"

[jbor]

Blicero's "politics" aren't clear-cut, and they do evolve through the course
of the novel. Apart from the early Romantic appeal of Nazi idealism which is
shared by Enzian and associated with a love for Rilke's Elegies (and which
pre-dates the Third Reich by a decade or more), I'd say his affiliation with
Nazism and the Nazis in the late '30s and '40s is never any more sincere
than Katje's, or Pokler's, and by the middle of his character trajectory, at
least, both his career and his project are very much at odds with his job as
a "Nazi". Firing Gottfried off into space in Rocket 00000 has nothing to do
with Nazism, or the war, except as a symbolic act of renunciation.

While he is revered as a "god-like" figure, or saviour, by many of the
characters, he is most decidedly represented by Pynchon as human. All too
human, you might say.

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