AtDtDA(28): A Small Exploring Party

[Dave Monroe]

On 3/22/08, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Opening of the Commedia (Inferno I), not La Vita Nuova -- but yes, no
> question at all that P has Dante in mind here (as he did earlier with all
> the hellish language when Kit was belowdecks on the battleship)..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
> Of Mark Kohut
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:46 AM
> To: Dave Monroe; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: AtDtDA(28): A Small Exploring Party
>
> Still thinking on why Kit has no doubt
>
> BUT your focussing here leads me to think TRP may be alluding to the opening
> of Dante's Vita Nuova---lost in a dark wood at mid-life fulll of doubt and
> uncertainty......
>
> which Kit IS NOT..........................

Thomas Pynchon: An American Dante?
Charles Hollander
International Pynchon Conference, June, 2004, Malta

—Note. During the International Pynchon Conference, held on Malta in
June, 2004, Charles Hollander presented article below. A slightly
expanded, more scholarly, and properly footnoted version including
Notes and Bibliography, will be prepared for the published collection
of the papers that will be available through "Pynchon Notes". (June,
23d, 2004)—

http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_dante_hollander.htm