BE as P's attempt at Greek New Comedy

[Robin Landseadel]

Bingo.
Thus my hands in the air like Larry David.
"Meh"-ness coupled with the sense that there's a great book in there,  
under that "Meh" surface.

But by virtue of fulfilling those requirements a real slog, first time  
around.

On Oct 8, 2013, at 5:07 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

>
>
> 383 pages in, I have the growing feeling that a work by Pynchon  
> finally
> meets the totalizing "requirements" Jameson set for postmodernism
> decades ago:
>
> - the waning of affect
> - blank and lukewarm pastiching
> - the abolition of critical distance
> - the all-pervasiveness of late capitalism with no space for  
> opposition
>

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