Against the Day

[Mark Kohut]

P. 19........the narrator, an elided Darby or Darby himself [weigh in]
speaks of the violent Molotov cocktail-throwing petroleurs of Paris
as "committing atrocities"............................................

The question of violence to effect social change against massive injustice
has come up in discussing AtD. On this list and, most notoriously, used
to angrily dismiss this novel--and Pynchon---by Adam Kirsch, being newly
touted (by one at least) as theLionel Trilling of our (later) time. And, is even
taken as a given by the writer of the first essay in the new expensive book
just on Against the Day. ("Look inside", with pages withheld, online) 

I say this judgment puts the lie to that early. Or, is this judgment just Darby's
and not aligned necessarily with the author's vision? (I say not just Darby's)
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