Pynchon's anti-Americanism

[Otto]

> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 04:02, Otto wrote:
>
> (quoting someone who sounds like Lynn Chaney after studying modern
> american lit under Doug Millison)
>
> >  Indeed, Senator Miller, had he had known
> > about it, would have been outraged back then to hear a popular professor
> > promote the idea that agreed with Pynchon's claim that, rather than
being
> > liberators of the Nazi concentration camps, the U.S. was a major player
in
> > the regime's inception. The novel, after a string of descriptions of
> > sado-masochistic acts involving children (connected, of course, with the
> > West/U.S./Nazi regime), ends with the indictment of the latest in what
> > Pynchon presents as a long line of fascist presidents, Richard Nixon.
> > Pynchon's book is nothing but a long, hallucinatory propaganda piece
that in
> > a disjointed post-modernist style distorts history in order to equate
Nazism
> > with Western civilization.
> > (...)
>
> I have no doubt that there actually were sprinkled about college
> campuses more than one Popular Professor fitting this description . . .
>
> Poor Pynchon.
>
>

Poor America, but I agree, there should be some professors "sprinkled about
college campuses" who have understood his novels.

Otto