Derrida and Pynchon

[Ghetta Life]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
>I agree that Pynchon's prose is often poetic. As well, Lot 49 is compact 
>(as
>opposed to the sprawling quality of his other major works) and very very
>funny. Also impressive is the way in which ideas from different 
>intellectual
>disciplines are interwoven -- satirically for the most part, though there 
>is
>intellectual weight there as well. For its time it's also cutting edge in
>terms of its literary form.

I'm not familiar with Pynchon's comments about COL49 in slow learner.  But 
my own objection to it is that it is a one-trick pony.  Oedipa's paranoia 
just grows and grows, ever finding more reasons to believe in some vast 
conspiracy.  Is it all in her head?  Maybe, mabe not.  So what?  No real 
development beyond that simple obvious theme.  At least that's how I 
remember it, but it has been a while (at least 12 years).

V and GR are just so much more rich, and never get tedious.

Ghetta

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