Pynchon's politics, as exhibited in Vineland

[Charles Albert]

yup....it is hard to ignore the "revolution eating its young".....



love,
cfa

On 7/27/06, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject: Pynchon's politics, as exhibited in Vineland
> >
> > Indeed, a classic quotation from a rare rave review of Vineland.
> >
> > I would say that for anyone who shares a broadly left-leaning political
> > worldview, the fact that Pynchon does too is readily apparent from
> reading
> > his other works, Vineland aside. It's comparable to standing next to
> someone
> > at a concert who's smoking a joint: if you don't know the smell of
> burning
> > marijuana then you'll maybe not recognise it, but if you do then there's
> no
> > mistaking it. With Vineland, he just made the politics explicit.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
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> ah, maybe; but what I like best about Vineland is that although yes it
> shows familiarity and affection for the lefties, it strives for a more
> mature perspective, translating political movements into emotional
> components and life consequences, and (for me, at least) suggesting that
> family and love trump politics; suggesting that the fact that political
> power comes out of the barrel of a gun taints political power irremediably
> and renders it not worth striving for...
> but that's almost a subsidiary point behind the evocation of the emotions
> and the working out of the different characters' karma, and the fulfillment
> of the ancient artistic charge: reaffirm stock values, urge the abandonment
> of the revenge ethic, and as Austin Powers said "Show me love!"
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