Pynchon and fascism

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri May 30 11:00:50 CDT 2003



Paul Nightingale wrote:

 P's text offers a reading of a reading.
> 
> One then has the act of reading. Juxtaposed to the process of
> signification outlined above, are competing interpretations, the
> anti-communist tract vs the novel O imagined (and here O is just another
> reader). There is also the reader of the Foreword, the reader of a
> reading (P's) of a reading (the novel as representation).
> 
> Hence, I think, the inseparability of writing and reading.

Why is it important  to insist that the Foreword is an example of the
inseparability of reading and writing? Again, why is this a point you
find significant? 

http://cela.albany.edu/publication/article/writeread.htm



More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list