CofL49, Eliot and The Wasteland

[Mark Kohut]

"linguistically is one thing", then there are the congeries of TRP's other associated meanings....
still 'other things' to come...............



----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 1:05:09 PM
Subject: Re: CofL49, Eliot and The Wasteland

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Behind Madame Sostris [in The Waste Land] lies all the dispossessed of Europe."---Eliot and His Age, R. Kirk

>From Pierre-Yves Petillon, "A Re-Cognition of Her Errand into the
Wilderness," New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49, Ed. Patrick O'Donnell
(New York: Cambridge, 1991), pp. 127-70:

"... the whole concept of the Tristero seems to derive linguistically
from a reference in Eliot's  The Waste Land to 'le Prince d'Aquitaine
a tour nobile' (line 430 [sic--try line 429]).  This line itself bears
a cryptic reference to Gerard de Nerval's poem 'El Deschidado,' in
which most of the major themes of the Tristero are sounded (the exile
into a shadowy, marginal world; the former prince whose 'tower' has
been 'abolished'; the 'black sun of melancholia').  Nerval's poem, in
turn, takes its titles from the motto on the shield of the mysterious
Disinherited Knight who turns up at the beginning of Walter Scott's
Ivanhoe, and who will eventually represent both the
Saxons and the Jews evicted from their estates by Norman chivalry...."

http://books.google.com/books?id=vp2Sv9KO1VUC
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521381635
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521388337

T.S. Eliot, The Waste-Land (1922)

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/table/explore5.html

Gerard de Nerval, "El Deschidado" (1853)

http://surrealdocuments.blogspot.com/2008/06/grard-de-nerval-el-desdichado-1853.html
http://agora.qc.ca/thematiques/mort.nsf/Documents/Gerard_de_Nerval--El_Deschidado_par_Gerard_de_Nerval

Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/82
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ivanhoe