NP: Great Dismal is William Gibson

[Joe Allonby]

I like PR a lot. The similarities with COL49 struck me when I read it
too. How about the name "Cayce Pollard"?

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Heikki:
>
>> Do you know if PR criticism contains comparisons of Cayce Pollard and Oedipa Maas?
>
> It does, beginning with Lisa Zeidner's review in NYT (19 January 2003). Fredric Jameson
> also compares PR to Lot 49 in his essay in the New Left Review ("Fear and Loathing in
> Globalization"), as does Steen Christiansen in an essay called "Transtextuality,
> Paranoia, and Apohenia." I'm sure there are more - there should be, at any rate, since
> the similarities between PR and Lot 49, and between Oedipa and Cayce, are numerous.
> There are also a couple of overt Pynchon references in PR.
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