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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