on character in Pynchon, esp AtD

[Mark Kohut]

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/situations-matter-sam-sommers/
 
I haven't read this book and don't plan to........but the summary opened this thought
re Pynchon's characters:  
 
With works that are so much about the situation of people in History; with P's way
of packing extra notions into all he can, is it fair to say his characters are given us,
largely, M & D maybe the major exception, situationally per the above? 
 
Or,as some modernist writer wrote around the time of AtD, I think: the old stable
ego of character is gone......................
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