Petillon

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

>>...Pierre-Yves Petillon, and find he was a  
> > frequent contributor to a French periodical called "Critique" in at  
> > least the 60s, 70s and 80s...
> 
> Maybe this is P-Y Petillon, Jr.
> 

could be, if so there is a great family tradition.
I was trying to find Critique on the Web but hampered by not knowing much French - not sure if the magazine is still around, even...
The piece in Pynchon Notes 15 is great!

> >
> > but that dates from 1995.
> 
> Has post-modernism been discuss all that much since then?
> 

not by me, before or since. 
hey, I didn't even know the word until 2004.  

> If he's talking about explaining Deconstruction, any explanation-- 
> simple or complex--could probably itself quickly be deconstructed.  

Like the alchemical universal solvent, eh?


>> a campaign strategy suggested by  
> > a prominent left-anarchist thinker and apparently co-opted by the  
> > State Dep't or somebody
> 
> Or by people discussing the Pynchon Japanese Playboy interview.
> 

> Whimsically,
> 
> P.
>

> >> 'Other' that the Tristero has thus
> >> far represented is almost revealed as a version of
> >> 'the other America' that Michael Harrington described
> >> ....  This America is 'the America of poverty,'
> >> 'hidden today in a way it never was before,'
> >> 'dispossesed,' 'living on the fringes, the margin,' as
> >> 'internal exiles.'
> >>    "Looking back on the novel from the perspective of
> >> its finale, it coul almost be viewed as a New Deal
> >> novel, concerned with gathering back into the American
> >> fold a 'third world' previouly excluded...." (pp.
> >> 149-50)
> >>
> >> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706
> >>


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