IVIV (8): Downstairs Eddie

[alice wellintown]

rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> but they're not real in the sense when reading a novel I never think
> of any character as flesh and blood
> it may subvert another convention but at this stage isn't that whole
> pomo thing such a tiresome trope--don't think Pynchon is doing that
> bit but he can't do nice very well imho

Maybe he can, but he's not trying to "do nice" here.  Leo and Elmina
are comic figures (TV characters who imitate film characters who
imitate fiction characters who imitate real Great Depression
gangsters, Bonnie and Clyde)  ) and are subjected to satire.