Pynchon, DeLillo: Today's class discussion. Participation is 50%, nay, 75%, of your grade.

[Giuseppe Sorrentino]

Isn’t there, in the work of both writers, always, in some way, a desperate attempt by their characters to stay afloat “amid the chaos of the death and history”? I agree that they are different in style and language, but they have many things in common, including conceptually...

> On Sep 29, 2018, at 7:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>   It's interesting that DeLillo and Pynchon are often compared when
>   conceptually they seem quite different. DeLillo uses the novel form (and
>   language) to maintain order amid the chaos of death and history. While
>   Pynchon delights in plots and language far zanier than 'real life'.
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> The depictions of paranoia in White Noise and Gravity's Rainbow
> respectively may be a good example.
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