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1、Philobiblon–Vol.XVI(2011)-No.2*HistoricalAnomieandtheCrisisofIdentityinThomasPynchon’sNovelsEcaterinaPĂTRAŞCUFacultyofPhilosophyandSocial-PoliticalSciencesAl.I.CuzaUniversityIaşiKeywords:anomie,relativism,historyasaconstruct,quantumphysics,contingenttruthAbstract:ThomasPynchon’snovelsanalyzedint
2、hisarticle–V.,TheCryingofLot49andGravity’sRainbow–bringinthelimelightpreoccupationstypicalforthepostmodernAmericannovel:theanomieofhistory,themaladivereality,sterileimagination,withdirectconsequencesontheconstructionofidentity.Theapproachtotheseconcernsisinterdisciplinary,thepostmodernconceptsof
3、relativism,arbitrarymeaning,subjectivity,constructedreality,(his)storyandinterchangeableinterpretationsbeingidentifiedanddelineatedbothinphilosophyandliterarytheory.Perceivedfromtheperspectiveofquantumphysics,historicisminPynchonisentirelysubjective;theorganizingstructuresofhistoryareonlyproduct
4、sofone’simagination,thereforetheanomieandtheaccidentalindubitablygovernit.Thegeneralimpressionisthatofaparanoidstateofmindthatevolvesfromapersonal(HerbertStencilandOedipaMaas)toacosmiclevel(TyroneSlothrop).E-mail:cati_patrascu@yahoo.com*IntroductionThedefiningaspectoftheAmericanhistoricalnovelin
5、postmodernismandimplicitlyofThomasPynchon’snovelsconsistsinthestructuringenterpriseofachaoticandindeterminatereality,oneinaprofoundcrisis.However,theorganizingscenariossuggestedbythesenovelistscannotbediscriminatedcoherentlyoneagainsttheother,theoptionforoneinparticularbeingcompletelyarbitrarysi
6、ncetheyareallequallyplausible.TypicallyforthepostmodernhistoricalnovelinAmerica,thereistheincapacityofoverlappingsystemsofsignificationoverdisparateelementsofthereal.Thehistoricalreferent,alreadytextualized,doesnothavethecapacitytomodelanexplicativeuniverse,yetitisabletofaceavariednumberofexplan
7、ations,evenif,orespeciallyiftheyarecontradictory.Beyondthe*Thispaperwaswrittenintheframeworkoftheproject“ReţeatransnaţionalădemanagementintegratalcercetăriipostdoctoraleîndomeniulComunicareaştiinţei.Construcţieinstituţională
