Vella: Intrusion in the Enchanter's Domain

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Interesting essay well worth reading, though it makes more of Pynchon's 
supposed debt to the Surrealists than I would. In closing, Vella quotes 
the "hothouse and the street" passage (440) and comments on "Pynchon's 
political affinity with the surrealists", calling it a view "that 
transcends the 'intolerable double vision' of the Right and the Left" 
with their "conventional ideologies" and "ossified forms of thought" 
(pp. 143-144).

'Thomas Pynchon's Intrusion in the Enchanter's Domain'
by Michael W. Vella, _Twentieth Century Literature_ 35.2, 1989, pp. 
131-146.	
Abstract: Examines the depiction of surrealism in the novel _V._, which 
signifies the author's involvement with the surrealist aesthetic. 
Background on the surrealist techniques which caught the interest of 
Pynchon; examples of surrealist percepts present in the novel; 
criticisms on the novel.

Pdf available.

best