The essay deals with a spatial analysis of Malta as the “prime location” of the novel, a privileged site in which the empty core of the novel is brought to the fore. Taking my cue from Pynchon’s casual mention of irony as a motive for putting his chapter set in 1919 Malta at the end of the novel and calling it “Epilogue”, I suggest that Pynchon wanted to deconstruct not only the function of myth as a meaning-giver structure—something that Modernist works such as T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses had already attempted—but also the cinematic imagination that has replaced myth in the twentieth century.
"He Could Go to Malta and Possibly End It": Malta as "Prime Location" in the Epilogue of "V." / Simonetti, Paolo. - STAMPA. - (2015), pp. 153-172.
"He Could Go to Malta and Possibly End It": Malta as "Prime Location" in the Epilogue of "V."
SIMONETTI, PAOLO
2015
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The essay deals with a spatial analysis of Malta as the “prime location” of the novel, a privileged site in which the empty core of the novel is brought to the fore. Taking my cue from Pynchon’s casual mention of irony as a motive for putting his chapter set in 1919 Malta at the end of the novel and calling it “Epilogue”, I suggest that Pynchon wanted to deconstruct not only the function of myth as a meaning-giver structure—something that Modernist works such as T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses had already attempted—but also the cinematic imagination that has replaced myth in the twentieth century.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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