TMoP, Chap 12..Isaev

[Richard Ryan]

Clearly, the relationship with Nechaev is charged with Oedipal tension - which makes D's attraction to Nechaev when he first encounters the revolutionary in drag all the more perverse.


--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: TMoP, Chap 12..Isaev
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 8:36 AM
> D. learns what his stepson seems to think about him in a
> story he wrote. He thinks about his own neglect of his son,
> his pettiness in letters.
> 
> Fatherless son....that angle to the Fathers & Sons
> motif...is this why Pavel even came to know such as
> Nechaev?....Had his father not neglected him, would he be
> alive?....
> 
> Is the Movement made up of fatherless sons?