VLVL "the Movement"

[Terrance]

Dissident Left? Why? I can't imagine why anyone would apply this term to
Pynchon.  Pynchon's characterization of Orwell as a member of the
dissident left makes sense
given the historical and biographical events P describes in his
Introduction to Orwell's classic, 1984.  But to apply the term to
Pynchon is like saying P is a member of the Lost Generation--Stein's
characterization of the authors who left the USA and lived and worked in
Europe because they believed that America had turned her back on her
great American values. It simply doesn't make any sense. In fact, one
could argue to compare the American Pynchon with the American
Fitzgerald. Both were, as we all know, Catholics. 


Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> I gots to axe here.  Is the argument at hand,
> esentially, Vineland is critical of, antipathic to the
> failure of sixties counterculrure(s), therefore,
> Pynchon is conservative?  Versus, say, Vineland is
> affirmative of, sympathetic to sixties counterculture,
> therefore Pynchon is leftist?  Er, six of one, a half
> dozen of the other.  Again, "dissident left" ...
> 
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