Pynchon's politics, as exhibited in Vineland

[terrance fitzgerald]

One of the great "plenty of other authors" is Ralph Ellison. I suspect that P alludes to I.M. a handful of times in GR, but I can't be certain. Perhaps the Slothrop at White Visitation is a parodic tip of the cap to Ralph. Recall that I M ends up working at a paint factory and is injured. He is treated in the factory-hospital. I guess the critics have investigated the influence of Ellison's I M on Pynchon. 
   
  PS playing ghetto monopolated in the dark with toni m and con man ed 

Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
    Literature for the Age of Unease:
Reading Pynchon Today

05.4.2006 | Alexander Nazaryan | Literature, Cultural
Affairs 
   
  Of course, plenty of other excellent novelists have
written about how fear and mistrust have seeped into
the American imagination while the public and private
sectors are allowed to frolic like lusty teenagers.
However, no author has been quite as adept as Pynchon
in showing the effects of American practices on
American people and what happens when the basic social
contract between individuals and governments gets an
editing job from some very filthy hands. 


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