Pynchon and fascism

[Paul Nightingale]

I can't remember where it was, although I'm pretty sure it was during
the current discussion, to the effect that the Holocaust doesn't feature
in either text. I don't think I'm mistaken, but of course, if I have
misrepresented the p-list, I apologise profusely.

As to your parting question/jibe, I've no interest, as I've stated on
several occasions, in playing p-list shark-games, so please don't expect
me to comment further. If you care to read White's essay, "The Modernist
Event" in Figural Realism (1999) you might achieve enlightenment on that
score.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [mailto:fqmorris at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 29 May 2003 16:51
> To: Paul Nightingale; 'Paul Mackin'; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Pynchon and fascism
> 
> 
> --- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > Coincidentally I've just been reading essays by Hayden White who
> describes
> what he calls "figural realism", in short, the way in which history
> writing
> turns 'the past' into narrative (or fiction). At one point he refers
to
> the
> Holocaust as the "paradigmatic modernist event in Western European
> history"
> because the scale of it all means it cannot be adequately described or
> represented ... which I suppose might be interesting, given what has
been
> said,
> on the p-list, about the Holocaust in 1984 and GR.
> 
> Can you help us out by quoting or linking to the archives "what has
been
> said,
> on the p-list, about the Holocaust in 1984 and GR?"  I don't remember
1984
> being discussed here before P's new intro.  Was he the scholar Doug
tried
> to
> enlist to verify his charge that certain P-listers were Holocaust
Deniers?
> 
> David Morris
> 
> 
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