Subject: Re: AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

[Dave Monroe]

Would be interested in yr thoughts on ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706

--- Jason Helms <helmstreet at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I dig that Dave.  I've heard Crying of Lot 49 read
> as the great anti-detective story (along with
> Lolita and various works by Eco and Auster) ...

See also, say, The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet ...
 
> ... and think it fits.  The idea of "unconcealing"
> is an interesting one in that it's Heidegger's
> translation of Aletheia (Greek for "truth) which is 
> literally an un-forgetting.  This works well with
> the whodunits of the western canon--but I'm
> interested in how this operates in the 
> post/metafiction of the last 50-150 yrs.  Does
> unconcealing begin to operate as poesis?  Just a
> thought.

I think GR in particular might prove bountiful ground
for Heidegger hunting ...


 
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