ATD critical reception re: Silverblatt

[pynchonoid]

[...] "If you read Pynchon straight through, all of
his work, you find that you're receiving a history of
man's interpretations of the technology and history
around them," Silverblatt says. "Not just the facts,
but the way the facts were interpreted in their time.
And these interpretations keep changing over time, so
that what you're looking at is a history of progress,
and interpretation of progress, that gets darker and
darker as we move through American history toward the
present. ... As we move through what he considers to
be the hell we're living in, Pynchon wants to find the
alternative tale, or a way of coping with the fact
that we're moving through hell. And his sense of
comedy is his alternative story."[...]

Not a useless observation, imo.

Well-deserved kudos to Tim Ware for his initiative and
lots of work on http://pynchonwiki.com, as celebrated
in the East Bay Express article.

GR is coming online in a wiki even as we speak, too, I
ported over the D (for Doug, naturally) index entries
last night.





 
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