Pynchon and Deleuze

[Clément Lévy]

Hi Will,

The parallel you mentioned is certainly right.

Working on *Gravity's Rainbow* through *Mille plateaux* I found the
following essays helpful (especially McHale), quite a long time ago:

Johnston John 1998, *Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age
of Media Saturation*, Baltimore – London, The Johns Hopkins University
Press. McHale Brian 2000, « Mason & Dixon in the Zone, or, A Brief Poetics
of Pynchon-Space », in Horvath B. et I. Malin (eds.), *Pynchon and* Mason &
Dixon, Newark, Del., University of Delaware Press, 43–62.
Mattessich Stefan 2002, *Lines of Flight, Discursive Time and
Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon*, Durham, N.C.
– London, Duke University Press.

I didn't check recently, but you will find some newer books using WorldCat
https://www.worldcat.org/

Best,
Clément

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 9:04 PM Will Reid <willreid1871 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Read this excerpt of Deleuze and it made me think about Pynchon,
> specifically how he presents the market in *Bleeding Edge*:
>
> "Underneath all reason lies delirium, drift. Everything is rational in
> capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself. The stock market is
> certainly rational; one can understand it, study it, the capitalists know
> how to use it, and yet it is completely delirious, it's mad. It is in this
> sense that we say: the rational is always the rationality of an
> irrational." Gilles Deleuze*,* *Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium*
>
> Has anyone else read Pynchon in conjunction with Deleuze & Guattari? I know
> he gave them a shoutout in *Vineland *so the man himself might be a fan.
>
> - Will
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