re. Re: aw. Re: Lit Crit 2007
Kai Frederik Lorentzen
lorentzen at hotmail.de
Fri Sep 21 08:17:00 CDT 2007
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/2007/01/gilles-deleuze-on-film-in-against-day.html
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>I find it quite serendiptious that the p-list is bringing up
>Deleuze/Guattari
>[and their ineffable Italian Mob Wedding Fake Book] at this juncture of
>the novel's progress. Whatever else Our Bedeviled Author might or might
>not be, no other writer that I'm aware of presents so much history
>refracted through so much ex-post facto revisionism, filtering images of
>the past through the funhouse mirrors and paramorphoscopes of the
>present. And, at this particular juncture, what seemed like a single
>"meet cute, potential love interest" subplot is about to be subdivided by
>some previously unencountered variety of stage magic performed on the
>high seas—"it's the old Liner-to-Battleship Effect. . . ." Obviously,
>stretching the boundries of what can and can't be placed in the "frame"
>of a "historical" novel must be serving some deeper purpose. This is
>satire writ large and I suspect further reading of and into Charles
>Hollander's aptly paranoic writings on Pynchon will doubtless yield up
>much of value. But now I'm curious about writings concerning Pynchon
>that are filtered through some Postmodern chunk of Iceland Spar while
>retaining some coherence and clarity. If someone would be so kind as
>to point me in the right direction. . . .
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