Pynchon's back catalogue

[Robin Landseadel]

[sotto voce]

One alternative way of subdividing the books is  pre-post WW II & post- 
WW II.

[Can't call GR pre-WW II, and it's not exactly post WW II either.]

And V., as Tore rightfully points out, is more of an apprentice/ 
journeyman work.

Another is pre and post CIA.

Again, V.'s the anomaly.

On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:29 PM, rich wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Tore Rye  
> Andersen<torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> If my idea of a "World Historical Project" is Eurocentric,
>> it is because the world's history of the past couple-three hundred  
>> years has, sad
>> to say, largely been dictated by old, corrupted Yurrup, and in the  
>> 20th century by
>> America. Those historical cusps may have originated in Europe, but  
>> they have had
>> major consequences for the rest of the world, as I'm sure you  
>> wouldn't deny.
>> Those three novels primarily describe the march of Modernity and  
>> what it has
>> been doing to the globe (and what it has forced out of existence).  
>> A-and where
>> would you say Modernity originates? Look it up, it's in the history  
>> books.
> _____
> where does the Japanese co-prosperity sphere fit in--unless you
> consider Japan being a westernized country in the early 20th century
> which I argue it wasn't. not disagreeing mind you, about the
> infection's origins and the awful scale of waste and destruction and
> horror
>
> Rich

Good question.

Obviously the issue of THE BOMB! ! ! comes into play just about every  
time Pynchon brings up the subject, one way or another.