AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

[Dave Monroe]

I have a pet theory about "Western" literature
(fiction, nonfiction, what have you) being by and
large a matter of "whodunit"--in the sense of, the
truth is something hidden, something to be
unconcelaed--from Sophocles and Plato onward, then
tkaing a turn somewhere in the last 50-150 yrs
(somewhere betwixt Poe and Robbe-Grillet) to
"whocareswhodidit."  Lacan and Derrida batting around
"The Purloined Letter" alone ...

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> "Pynchon's novels aren't really about 'whodunit' -
> not for me, anyway. Reading Pynchon for me is all
> about savouring the prose, page by page, sentence by
> sentence, while trying to detect larger structural
> and thematic patterns. It's about trying to keep the
> local and global details in my head all at once,
> enjoying the beauty and complexity of it all. And a
> spoiler or two won't detract from that pleasure."
> 
> Eggs Ackley. The Crying Of Lot 49 is the ultimate
> anti-whodunnit, Gravity's Rainbow ends in freefall,
> the narritive vehicle breaking up into smaller and
> smaller pieces before the whole novel crashes into
> our theater, & M & D ends with a nod to Bono.
> Seriously, could you imagine AtD being hawked on TV
> with one of those 30 second spots, like the ones
> used for James Patterson novels? ...


 
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