Ethical Diversions

[Dave Monroe]

Picked up ...

Orban, Katalin.  Ethical Diversions:
   The Post-Holocaust  Narratives of Pynchon, Abish,
   DeLillo, and Spigelman.  New York: Routledge, 2005.

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See ...

Ch. 3, "Pinpricks on the Ars(e) Narrandi: Liminality
and Oven-Games in Gravity's Rainbow," pp. 115-67

   "These traces play hide-and-seek with the reader
....  What I have been arguing all along is that this
play of hide-and-seek is one of the most serious
'games' this work is playing, one in which seriousness
and anxiety are hopelessly (hopefully?) mixed up with
a play of openness.  There is nothing to secure that
such textual traces will be read in terms of traumatic
loss, for their liminality is not underwritten by
anything in the narrativethat is also not overwritten
in this scattering encyclopedia....  How can a text
work in its unguaranteed posibilities?  This is what
is at stake in Gravity's Rainbow in general and it and
in its performative, erratic and minimal ethics in
particular.  And it is in this sense the book takes
perhaps its greatest risk with the trace of the
holocaut, which it brings to the threshold of
perception, neither remembered, nor forgotten." (pp.
166-7)



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