Longish review of AtD

[bekah]

It was almost ... like a ... dream.

b

At 12:55 PM -0700 6/27/07, Mark Kohut wrote:
>That longing, that desire......not quite nostalgia....since Against 
>the Day is a kind
>or Remembrance of Things Lost.......Rememberance of Things That 
>Might have Been....
>
>Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>  > Back to the Future: On Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day William Logan
>
>>  http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/summer/logan-pynchon-ag
>ainst-the-day/
>
>I like it. Logan identifies our guy's characteristic weaknesses, with
>examples numerous and well-chosen enough to carry considerable weight. And
>he's dead right about our indulgence:
>
>"Pynchon makes a halfhearted attempt to tie up a few loose ends... The true
>Pynchon fanatic would never be worried by this... This gives Pynchon a
>license for picaresque most authors would kill for-his vices have been
>transmuted into virtues, a better bargain than that offered by the
>philosopher's stone."
>
>
>That said, I would have given much more space and weight to a countervailing
>strength running through all the books:
>
>"There's a longing at the heart of Against the Day, a tortured desire to
>redeem and amend-the theme is taken up as vengeance but played out as
>nostalgia."
>
>If history is "stuff that happened back then," this is one author's
>crotchet. If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, it is
>something we desperately need.
>
>
>
>
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