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
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