AtD--How Does it Fit/Great Global Novels

[pynchonoid]

One Big Novel - it's easier to deal with that way. P's
concerns have been BOTH global AND American from the
beginning it seems to me.

I don't understand leaving Vineland out of the triads
or quartets, either, and yes I do understand some
readers don't like it stylistically or because of the
political and pop culture content - but the Japanese
material there puts the novel on a global or
globalized scale, the concerns are thoroughly
"postmodern" as well as American. I believe Vineland
is at least part the Japan-related whatever it was
that P was working on when he wrote that letter to
Donadio.  Close reading of the novel here showed
Vineland to be of a piece with the rest of his novels,
not in a ghetto apart.

I suspect we'll see more material related to Japan in
the new novel, turn of the 19th-to 20th century is
pivotal to Japan in terms of setting up the War that
dominates GR, the American response and America's own
journey to the west, as it comes into its own as an
imperialist power.


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