"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 26/10/2005, at 8:19 AM, pynchonoid wrote:

> Nice to see you interpreting GR through the lens of
> the Holocaust again,

Yes, the absence of literal references to or descriptions of the death 
camps and the Holocaust is one of the most striking things about GR. 
Awareness only ever manifests in echoes and insinuations (such as in 
the telepath's dream which opens the text). Which is just as it should 
be, of course -- the inhumanity of the Nazi 'Final Solution' wasn't 
public knowledge in 1944, which is when the narrative is set. It was, 
however, in the '60s and early '70s when the novel was written, and 
must be ever to the fore in readers' minds when they consider Nazi 
Germany and WWII.

best