Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre

[Bekah]

A couple of Pynchon's books (V. and GR) involve international  
history,  perhaps,  but not "world" history.  Imo, only AtD qualifies  
as "world" history.    V. is set in Britain and Malta, I believe.    
Gravity's Rainbow is set almost entirely in a handful of countries in  
Western Europe with a brief flashback for the Persian Gulf.

Bekah


On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Joe Allonby wrote:

> Mason & Dixon involve two citizens of Great Britain and is  
> partially set in South Africa and the Pacific. Wouldn't that also  
> be World History?
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> The World History novels. A trilogy.
> "V."
> "Gravity's Rainbow"
> "Against the Day"
>
> The contemorary (or recent past) American novels
>
> --  "C of Lot 49"
> ----"Vineland"
> ----new one
>
> The historical American novel
> ---Mason & Dixon
>
> If we believe, as I do from external info, that TRP was working on ATD
> for a long time---since finishing GR, maybe---then he has  
> alternated, roughly, the World Historical novels with the American  
> novels.
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