Fwd: RE: AtD--How Does it Fit/Great Global Novels

[pynchonoid]

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: AtD--How Does it Fit/Great Global
> Novels
> To: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> 
> --- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > One Big Novel
> 
> I hope we get to see Pynchon's notebooks one of
> these
> days and his rough drafts and such, to see just how
> he
> developed his novels. The readings we've done here
> have demonstrated an amazing degree of
> interconnections between the novels
> 
> 
> > - 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.  
> 
> Think I'm getting my Pynchon factoids mixed up.  The
> reference to him working on a novel about Japan come
> from the same Newsweek item that mentioned he was
> working on a novel about the Mason & Dixon line?  Or
> do I still have it all confused? 
> 
> Isn't there something significant about Japan or
> related to Japan in each of the novels?  I'm not
> coming up with such a reference in V. off the top of
> my still coming to life Saturday morning head.
> 
> >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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