More Against the Days

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:12:38 -0400
>From: Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org>
>Subject: Re: More Against the Days

I also tend to think that the title has something to say about the role of 
fiction in general and about Pynchon's new novel in particular. In these 
troubled times, fiction remains one of our only shelters against the day, 
against the bleak reality surrounding us. It is not an escape from the world 
as such (Pynchon has never been one to turn his back on reality) but rather 
a safe space/a distorted map of the world which allows us to reflect on this 
world and on how we may still change it - or, in Pynchon's own words: "If it 
is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or 
two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction."

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