Pynchon and fascism

[Terrance]

"Vincent A. Maeder" wrote:
> 
> Well--and this dips into a whole philosophical realm that will lead us
> down dark hallways as we bump into each other--each reader's POV screws
> with the intent of the author's POV distancing the reader from the
> authorial intent.  Fine.  But what of the craft of writing?  If a
> coherent POV is created by an author, what has he done in the craft of
> writing that resulted in your perception of a coherent POV?  

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The varieties of authorial POV have been investigated more fully by
Literary Critics than by Philosophers. Hence, the Lit-Crit discussion on
the List. In  _The Rhetoric of Fiction_  Wayne Booth looks into
authorial POV. Excellent study. 

Commenting on POV and Voice and the critical response to Voice in
narrative Booth says that looking into POV and Voice raises more
questions: 

Why is it that an episode is told ....shown ... Why some authorial
commentary ruin a work ... while  the prolonged commentary of ...
enthrall us?  What, after all, 
does an author do when he "intrudes" to "tell" us something about his
story? Such questions force us to consider closely what happens when an
author engages a reader full with a work of fiction; they lead us to a
view of **fictional technique** which necessarily goes far beyond the
reductions that we have sometimes accepted under the concept "point of
view."