Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre

kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Fri Oct 3 15:07:18 CDT 2008


In V, TRP was trying to find his voice and was flirting with not just writing about the hipster counter-culture, but BEING a hipster counter-culture writer (which was a pretty sexist scene at the time -  Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, etc.).  Fortunately, he moved on.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Patty <navan.ghee at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 3, 2008 3:52 PM
>To: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
>Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre
>
>Having just finished 'V.' and poring over Kerry Grant's companion volume
>now, I agree w/ the assessment of the gender relations in the work being
>less than embarrassing--  if anything, they're fairly accurate in describing
>the changing / conflicting mores, morals & sexual codes of the times &
>places described.  The Pynchon behind 'V.' was certainly a few thousand
>steps ahead of his one-time hero Kerouac when it came to talking honestly
>about love & lust...  Much more so than the younger man who wrote
>'Low-Lands'.




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