COL49 Remedios Varo

[Robin Landseadel]

http://www.spamula.net/blog/i37/varo10.jpg

http://www.remediosvaro-simones.synthasite.com/resources/RemediosVaro.jpg

http://arteyartistas.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/exploracion_de_las_fuentes_del_rio_orinoco-remedios-varo.jpg

On May 5, 2009, at 10:06 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> After looking at Varo's paintings it's easy to think that they  
> inspired the creation of Oedipa and the entire book. Depending on  
> when Pynchon first saw the Varo exhibit, Varo may have inspired V as  
> well.

I agree, there is the surrealism and the triste of CoL49 in her work.

Charles Hollander argues that Remedios Varo points to Varro & Varro  
points to Menippean Satire:

	Why should Pynchon choose to mention a painting by this
	particularly obscure painter when there are many other
	“Rapunzel” paintings that might have served his thematic ends
	as well?

	The answer is, that in pursuing the strange name, Varo, we are
	led to a cognate name, one Marcus Terentius Varro  . . .

Much more @

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/inferno.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro

I'd say it's more likely that Jesus Arrabal points to Fernando Arrabal.