The revolutionaries of May

[Rob Jackson]

> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:12:53 +0200
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E1nos_Sz=E9kely?= <miksaapja at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The revolutionaries of May
>
> Dave:
>
> Yes, Fanon (another hero of May 1968) was definitely an influence.
>
> János

Louis Menand's review of M&D (entitled 'Entropology', and the best of  
the crop) foregrounds Claude Levi-Strauss's 1955 'Tristes Tropiques'  
as a source for that novel:

http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Entropology

And I'd say that Paolo Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' was out in  
English in just enough time to be in the mix as Pynchon was writing  
GR, alongside Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth'.

There's a definite post-colonialist sensibility in almost all of  
Pynchon's works, though he would never be formally classified as a  
post-colonial author.

with best wishes