TRTR: Racking my brain over The Rackignitons....

Wed Jun 22 09:05:29 CDT 2011

On 21.06.2011 18:28, Richard Ryan wrote:

>
> It's not completely correct to call The Recognitions a-political, but 
> it's politics (at least as far as I've read in it) are nowhere as 
> overt as they are in Pynchon's novels.

The politics in Pynchon's novels is "overt"?! Well, M&D is obviously 
against slavery, but apart from that it's all not so overt, imo. I mean, 
some people (not me) even consider GR to be /pro/ space-travel with 
rockets ... And up to now no one could explain to me whether AtD was 
really written /against/ the historical enlightenment or not. Can you? 
But perhaps you just meant that the books have a political dimension 
which is, of course, true.

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