Pynchon's affection

Peter Petto ppetto at apk.net
Wed Apr 25 20:29:57 CDT 2007


I certainly agree with Tore Rye Andersen, with regard to GR and M&D 
(the trajectory of the Age of Reason)...but still need to ponder the 
rest of the canon.

He wrote:

>Whereas an author like DeLillo is primarily interested in America 
>qua America, Pynchon seems to be interested in America as the 
>culmination of the historical process described by Blicero: He's 
>interested in what Europe came and did to America, and he's 
>interested in what America has subsequently been doing to itself, 
>and to the World.

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Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net>
Bay Village, OH



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