Kuberski: Gravity's Angel

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Extremely interesting, if heavily abstract and philosophical, 
discussion, of _GR_ specifically, Pynchon's works in general, and of 
the American literary "tradition" in a broader context; Kuberski 
juxtaposes the "conservative", "humanist" approaches to Pynchon's work 
of critics like Clerc, Tanner and Charles Russell with Althusserian 
"ideology", Derridean "supplementarity", Heidegger's "they", and 
Lacanian psychoanalytical theory. (pdf)

'Gravity's Angel: The Ideology of Pynchon's Fiction' by Philip Kuberski.
_boundary 2_ 15.1/2, 1986-7, pp. 135-151.

Abstract: Pynchon's fiction hardly seems formalist or humanist, but 
criticism dedicated to it has gone to great pains to show that 
Pynchon's disregard for conventions of novelistic character, style, and 
closure would certainly appeal to deconstructive critics interested in 
the critique of these metaphysically-oriented values. It would also 
attract Marxist critics interested in an undoing of the humanist 
repressions that produce those forms and values.

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