martes, 24 de noviembre de 2009
"Too much kirsch", Revolution, Lolita And "Naked lust"
This is the first time I sit to write a blog and I can’t decide how to begin. I will write impulsively, like Pynchon does. I mean it’s a 60`s book with descriptions and satire. So we got the Sex Revolution, psychodelic music, Vietnam War and the consumption of drugs in a conservative American society. We have a literary revolution, a type of literature that emerges from the youth: bold. Nabokov’s Lolita is an example of prose in which Humbert’s obsession was a taboo to most readers. “Reading in between the lines” is a skill I have developed in order to analyze texts. But this novel isn’t about deeper ideas or messages we as active readers have to figure out. The text itself is vanguardist, it proposes to focus on detail: on technique. We are introduced to Oedipa Mass apparently the main character of the story. She “came home from a Tupper ware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named exectutor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.”(Chapter 1) I mean she went to a party, came back, was informed that she was now the executrix of a Pierce and it seems that he lost a lot of money but still had the power to gain wealth. Wendell (her husband) AKA Mucho Mass “suffered regular crises of conscience about his profession.”(Chapter 1) I mean that’s a humorous way to state, “he is one of those guys whose life is destined to constant frustration, because he never accomplished what he dream of.” As I observed through the first chapters I found two epithets. “Naked lust” and “gray sickness” (also a metaphor and synesthesia.) Pynchon is experimenting with words, with irony and a neo baroque writing.
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