Who reads TP? Goytisolo, yes. And Paul Ricoeur?

[Matthew Cissell]

More than a month back (the end of October) I saw an article in El Pais, a spanish newspaper, by Juan Goytisolo. In it he made mention of his summer reading: "... some French, some Russians, Thomas Pynchon...". Of course this bit of news is not that surprising, it is understandable that a literary figure like Goytisolo might read Pynchon. But not all cases are so clear.
   Recently I have come across one of those cases that forces the Pynchonian reader to choose between connectedness and coincidence. This occurrs in Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative vol 1, in chapter 5. Ricoeur draws on Georg Von Wright (Wittgenstein's collegue) to distinguish between causal explanation (cause and effect logic) and causal analysis.     "The adding of teleological explanation to causal explanation is called for by the logic of 'in order that'. Let us set aside the case of quasi-teleological explanation which is only disguised causal explanation, as when we say a wild animal is attracted by its prey, or that a rocket is drawn to its target. (!) The teleological language cannot conceal the fact that the validity of these explanations rests entiriely on the truth of their nomic connections." (p 137)
    The content (a critique of causal logic) along with the example of the rocket would be enough to  catch a GR reader's eye, but the Wittgenstein connection would set the paranoia machine to whirling. I myself took a quick look at the publication date (Editions du Seuil, 1983). Ricouer certainly could have used other examples to make the same point.
    So the question is: did Paul Ricouer read Gravity's Rainbow?