AtD gold

[barbie gaze]

RT is not a style, exactly, but I get your meaning here, P. I suspect that
young Pynchon was taught or discovered on his own that Hamlet may be read
as a parody of revenge tragedy. When we read deep into
Shakespeare's Hamlet, contrast it with its sources and view it in
context, we find that Shakespeare's massive play is revenge on RT, and
other popular forms and the playwrites who were producing these popular
plays. Hamlet is, as is all of Pynchon, over the top and spills endlessly
even into itself. So, as Hamlet is a parody of RT and the popular children
acted plays and the like, it is also a parody of WIlliam Shakespeare and
his own plays, his profession, his art. I suspect that, intentional or not,
that is what P did with Lot49, or that is what critics have made of it.



> Pynchon does parody writing styles sometimes.  He parodied Jacobean
>> Revenge Tragedy in Lot 49. Heck, that whole novel may be a parody of
>> postmodern writing.  Not a farfetched idea at all. I doubt it was
>> intentional however.  I don't think he ever engages in self-parody. He's
>> too good to be parodied, even by himself.
>>
>> I realize there are no hard and fast rules on how one must interpret the
>> novel one is reading,  but, if you want my opinion, here is one anyway:
>> deconstruct at your earliest convenience any binary opposition between
>> meaningful and nonmeaningful  you might be inclined to entertain.
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