The Fictions of Surrealism

[Mark Kohut]

Ish,

Your memory is real good for all pynchon (and much else) but I
want to simply point out a small textual variant ala the plot of Lot 49.
My text reads "less responsible Surrealism"...a difference without a
difference
maybe, but I have always thought, since TRP is so efficiently compact in
this Intro,
it seems to me, that he was referring to his earlier other remark about the
story,
"junkshop or randomly selected quality to many of the scenes in "The Secret
Integration"
which I have thought meant the story is not "organic' in that New Criticism
way....and, when
he went "surreal" later, say in Lot 49 and GR, he had reasons up the wazzo,
nothing random
anymore....



On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:24 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not quite sure what, exactly, Mr. Pynchon means by "the irresponsible
> Surrealism" (SL.22) in "The Secret Integration", but I used to think
> it had to do with Mr McAfee detox session with the boys, and I
> certainly hope he doesn't mean the junkyard themes and junkyard dreams
> of the boys and their parents, the theme of what a consumer driven
> society of disposable culture does to the black characters and to the
> dream of integration. The story is a beauty, really. Love it.
>
> I posted the Walter A. Strauss study because it mentions Joyce and
> Marquez, and Alice....and I think that the lists, like the one Oedipa
> makes on the bus, the surreal list, may be influenced by Marques too.
>
> His early tales, Leaf Storm, include these bizarre lists, in dream.
> Also, goes to the global thread before, as Marquez too, like Faulkner
> and Toni Morrison works with a postage stamp world.
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:56 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> http://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1399&context=sttcl
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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