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

[John Doe]

...well..it may limit discourse...but it doesn't limit
talkin' about it....I figure the glaring absence of it
in the novel allows for a lot of discourse...many cool
speculations....I've got my two cents - and free of
trendy Crit jargon ta boot!; )( except in sarcastic or
faintly ironic tones ):
There may be many reasons for it's exclusion....one,
perhaps, is that Pynchon has established the peculiar
intrigue of the plight of the Hereros...another "race"
that has also had more than its share of abuse and
terror at the hand of Master Races....in order to
maintain the Gravity  :  ) of the situation of the
Hereos, Pynchon wisely avoids attracting the reader's
attention to the imcomparable massacre of the
Holocaust...it would detract...also, I think he
understood that the comical capers, the whimsy burts
of song, the many other devices of levity and high
non-seriousness would lose effect if the reader was
maintaining images of the Ovens in his/her mind...


--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> It doesn't limit anything. It is a statement of fact
> which can then be 
> used for literary discourse, if one wants the
> discourse to be related 
> to Pynchon's craft.
> 
> On Oct 27, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Tim Strzechowski
> wrote:
> 
>   To say that "‘the Final Solution of the Jewish
> Question’ enacted by 
> the SS in the Nazi death camps [...] is nowhere
> described or referred 
> to in the novel" seems, to me, to limit the
> potential for literary 
> discourse.
> 
> 



		
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