"How pleasant to watch Nothing": Narrativity and Desire in V.

Pynchon's seriously playful manipulation of narrative makes the reading of his first novel V. an exploration of V. not only as literary experience but also as psychoanalytic quest into the self of the reader. Like the detective genre that he parodies, V. is a novel that invites the reader to f...

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Main Author: Timothy Gilmore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2012-07-01
Series:Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon
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Online Access:https://www.pynchon.net/owap/article/view/14