Not "novel of ideas" but what was blowing in the Wind

[ish mailian]

Repression's Rainbow: The Presence of Norman O. Brown in Pynchon's Big Novel
Lawrence C. Wolfley

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:25 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The book that most helped me find resonance with GR was Norman O. Brown's
> "Life Against Death." Clearly it was a yuuuge influence on P. For GR.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Monday, December 14, 2015, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That book helped me immensely after reading GR. It is great for folks
>> like me who require the cultural and historical context of the novel
>> without having to follow along reading every single annotation from that
>> other weisenberger book or the wiki. Helped me to understand the major
>> intellectual discourse from the "long 60s" as well providing further
>> context. I think it was last year or the year before when i first finished
>> GR, after joining the list, read this book immediately after, then re-read
>> GR again not too long after that. If I were reading GR for a college course
>> I think Domination and Freedom would be an excellent companion or aperitif
>> for students.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:41 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Before, during, and after GR.
>>>
>>> The novel of ideas is too confusing to me. I find that most definitions
>>> are loaded up with negative adjectives and that it does more harm than
>>> good.
>>>
>>> I like the thread that considers how America produced a different
>>> fiction from Europe.
>>>
>>> In this review, some good stuff.
>>>
>>> https://www.pynchon.net/articles/10.7766/orbit.v2.2.114/
>>>
>>
>>
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