That Locke Review of GR

[John Bailey]

I'm interested in the "shifted East (Japan)" bit, Ish - what is Cowart
arguing there?

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 12:59 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> In his Dark Passages of History David Cowart suggests that P had a
> German period (V., Lot49, GR) then shifted East (Japan) to satirize
> American popular culture and the global capital that it wraps itself
> about.   The read of the German period is a good summary of what othes
> have written about in depth. I've been re-reading Marshall Berman's
> All That Is Solid Melts into Air, not a book Pynchon had in his German
> period but may have gotten to since. The "Jewish themes"  of Pynchon,
> one might say, are a constant. Berman weaves these themes into his
> readings of Faust and Marx and the American Street. Great stuff. .
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 3:54 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>
>>> In Pynchon's world there is almost no trust, no human nurture, no mutual
>>> support, no family life. <
>>
>> That's why Pynchon, starting with Vineland, readjusted his style (--->
>> "Pynchon 2").
>>
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>> Am 14.04.2017 um 15:18 schrieb ish mailian:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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