ATD: "the anatomy" re Globe & Mail review

[pynchonoid]

[...] This is not fiction about characters in their
social relations, in the usual way of the novel. It's
closer to a form of satire that Northrop Frye has
called the anatomy, after Robert Burton's Anatomy of
Melancholy (1621), though with a strong infusion of
Romantic yearning. Characters in an anatomy are
distinguished by their professions or their
intellectual obsessions, rather than by the emotional
significance of their dramatic interactions. Compared
to the characters in most realistic novels, Pynchon's
are emotionally static: unable to act, or to reconnect
with a lost lover or parent or child or sibling or
place, or to know what exactly it is, in their private
diaspora, they are looking for. Except for
instinctive, or grudging, couplings and bondings,
everybody is adrift, just out of reach.[...]

<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061202.BKPYNC02/TPStory/Entertainment/?pageRequested=2>


BS, of course, but at least the reviewer put a
different frame about it.  



 
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