COL49 - Chap 2: San Narciso as a circuit board

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:
> Natalia:
> > In AtD there are elaborate descriptions of technology AND of characters and their psychological
> > conflicts... That's one of the reasons the book's so thick - Pynchon focuses on both themes, and
> > emphasizes the last one a lot more than he did in GR ou V.
> Good point, and I think you're absolutely right that Pynchon wants to have it both ways in AtD.
> Still, I'd contend that the characters in AtD are much thinner than the main characters in VL and
> M&D. Lake, for instance, is but a shallow version of Frenesi.

Good points by both of you.

It often feels that the characters in AtD are mere actants in a Proppian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp
tale.


Heikki