GR: screaming

[Otto]

Pynchon has brilliantly combined German political and cultural history 
with the mechanisms of paranoia to create an exceedingly complex work of 
art. The most important cultural figure in "Gravity's Rainbow" is not 
Goethe or Wagner, however, but Rainer Maria Rilke, Captain Blicero's 
favorite poet. In a way, the book could be read as a serio-comic 
variation on Rilke's "Duino Elegies" and their German Romantic echoes in 
Nazi culture. The "Elegies" begin with a cry: "Who, if I screamed, would 
hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly 
pressed me against his heart, I would fade in the strength of his 
stronger existence. For Beauty is nothing but the beginning of Terror 
that we're still just able to bear, and why we adore it is because it 
serenely disdains to destroy us."

One of the Longest, Most Difficult, Most Ambitious Novels in Years
By RICHARD LOCKE, March 11, 1973
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html

	

	
		
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