Pynchon on art and the depression/ recession!( Jones sez)...from a Guardian piece today, 2/8

[David Morris]

At best it's a reach of interpretation by a pretentious art critic.
Pretentious because he takes such liberties with his own "Pynchon
says."  It's a crass means of borrowing stature for his shaky thesis.
The contemporary art portrayed in V is called "Catatonic
Expressionism," hardly a characterization of  "great art" as a product
of internalized depression from the previous generation's era.

But depression as a symptom of the individual's place in the
dehumanized realm of the modern era is very much a subject in V.
Hardly the same thing.

David Morris

On Feb 8, 2008 11:53 AM, Martin Hinks <mhinks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a crude, and contentious, paraphrase to me...
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> On Feb 8, 2008 5:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I searched the Google Books "V" and found no such statement, nor anything like it.
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> > http://books.google.com/books?id=jqS2pmUIfOAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=v+pynchon&ei=EYysR7DMOY_6zQTu8-2dBg&sig=krfZtuTJ00zFaHxfh8Tl1Y3RGr8#PPP1,M1
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> > On Feb 8, 2008 10:38 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > >  "Thomas Pynchon said in his novel V that, after the war, the depression went inside, and that is true of their work. They were producing art in a time of prosperity, but shaped by the depression. "