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

[Mark Kohut]

Brown's 'Polymorphous perversity'---the "fully eroticized' (not
narrowed to genital sexuality) body....comes back decades later
with Cyprian, yes, that wonderful moment when he is suffused with
unexpected, unalloyed joy. ?

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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