V-2nd - 2: Who's your favorite Pynchonian character?

[Alex Colter]

I suppose my favorites would have to be Jeremiah Dixon, (good ol' Tyrone
slips in here in the background),
 Saure Bummer "Raketemensch!", a-and that restless Oedipa Maas, and the
Bodine characters, among others...

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:38 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>  I suspect that when you guys are talkin bout narrative voices, points
>> of view, storytelling and what not. . .you know that these are not
>> character. . .  and that bringing characters to life, though narrative
>> (one of the four elements of characterization--1. act, 2. speak, 3.
>> think and feel, 4. described) is better discussed under the formal
>> term, style and that P's style in V., and in the early essays and slow
>> learner stories, is still raw--the influence and anxiety of Modernism,
>> from, as Mark noted, Adams, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, and
>> from the American Romance--Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Brown, and of
>> course, the new and novel experimentors in the quest and picaresque
>> genres, all used a parodic material (e.g., Benny is an On The Road
>> wondering scholar-- Dean Moriarty / Adams who learns nothing and is
>> unchanged by his adventure On This Other Side of Paradise
>> (Fitzgerald). Style is what you like in the voice in the sentences and
>> syntax, the odd turns of phrases and clauses that run on into pauses
>> and digressions and allusions that tingle and tangle into
>> progressively.
>>
>
> Uh, no . . .
>
> "character" is also affect or attitude but more to the point, "character"
> also address the notions of more or less "rounded" or at the very least
> remotely plausible representations of recognizable human behavior, of which
> there aren't too many in the loose bowels of our Auteur's canon. On the
> other hand this/these narrators, this quick-change artist relaying these
> implausible events via impersonations of the voices of that implausible
> time, this stoned fabulist—I'd like to know him, whoever he may be. And
> whoever this/these character/ers may be they are not the author, these
> voices are fictional creations.
>
>
>
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