Pynchon's Quest Narratives ...

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Campbel Morgan<campbelmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hawthorne may be the best source: The House of the Seven Gables,...

  "Hawthorne ends the preface to The House of Seven Gables with a
final insstruction that his riomance is not to be read historically,
as a novel, but on its own terms ..." (Madsen, p. 26)

> Melville is recognized as the master of this form in England
> but called a madman in America. That's why we must not credit
> Cervantes with Pynchon's form. For to ignore Melville and Brocken
> Brown & Co. is to misread Pynchon and the tradition he springs from....

   "Pynchon's style of writing is an aspect of this American quest for
meaning and merits comparison with Moby Dick...." (Madsen, p. 28)