VLVL2 (2): Readings

[Tim Strzechowski]

(A sidenote at this point):

By the way, and lest we forget, Terrance's assertions that the novel Vineland is "about" work is only one reading of the novel.  To say that any literary work is "about" only one particular topic is, of course, to be simplistic and misleading in one's interpretations (and I know Terrance is aware of this).  Gravity's Rainbow is not "about" sex simply because there's a lot of sex in it, or "about" the Holocaust because there's a lot of references to it, any more than Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" is a story "about" alcoholism merely because that's how I interpret the story.

"Work" is just one reading of Vineland.  Like any complex work of literature, it's "about" other things, too.  Vineland is also about family, about loyalty, even about film as text. Others?

Just trying to keep things in perspective, is all.

Respectfully,

Tim


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