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The Economic Wonderland of Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49

Lin, Yi-Chuang Elizabeth

Critique - Bolingbroke Society, 2022-03, Vol.63 (2), p.131-143 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Washington: Routledge

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  • Título:
    The Economic Wonderland of Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49
  • Autor: Lin, Yi-Chuang Elizabeth
  • Assuntos: American literature ; Capitalism ; Crime fiction ; Economics ; Entropy ; Exegesis & hermeneutics ; Fetishism ; Fiction ; Literary criticism ; Literary devices ; Mysteries ; Plot (Narrative) ; Postmodernism ; Psychoanalysis ; Pynchon, Thomas ; Rhetoric ; Rhetorical figures ; Sociopolitical factors
  • É parte de: Critique - Bolingbroke Society, 2022-03, Vol.63 (2), p.131-143
  • Descrição: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 is often read through the lens of psychoanalysis and taken as a model of postmodern fiction with its indeterminable, norm-subverting, hermeneutic narrative. Yet, as Pierce Inverarity, the ultimate capitalist, stands as the absent center of the mystery, this paper re-approaches Lot 49 and proposes that buried beneath its detective/mystery threads is a potent critique of the political-economic milieu of the sixties California. The various tropes, from the captive Rapunzel, Remedios Varo's triptych, the duplicitous Trystero, to the second law of thermodynamics and entropy, knit out a world that is consolidated by economic activities and above all commodity fetishism. The article contends that Lot 49 is a reply to the sociopolitical discourses and the civil movements of the sixties. Drawing on economic and communication activities, Lot 49 breaks down the conventional binary distinction and demonstrates a complex interplay of capital, credit, and rhetoric that fabricates a postmodern world of which "all that is solid melts into air."
  • Editor: Washington: Routledge
  • Idioma: Inglês
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