Kathyrn Hume on Late Coover

[alice wellintown]

>From the excerpt, it seems that the author implies that P celebrates
anarchist destruction in earlier works. If this is the case, the
author is wrong. There is no celebration of anarchist destruction in
the Short Stories or in V. or in GR or M&D or VL. So how is anachy,
and anarchist destruction, such as the failed attempts of the sick
crews, from Grover and the boys on, treated in Pynchon's works before
agtd AND iv?


> "As high postmodernism wanes, some of its leading figures have backed
> away from the void and have tried to offer partial answers to life's
> questions and some meaningful values. David Foster Wallace very
> tentatively seeks an ethic; Pynchon has shifted from complete distrust
> of every human organization (Gravity's Rainbow) to a strong and
> arguably sentimental belief in families. Pynchon once felt even the
> Red Cross could not escape the inherent evil of being an organization,
> but his latest two novels have shown more acceptance of social
> realities, and Inherent Vice celebrates negotiating society's
> obstacles rather than anarchist destruction.