![]() ![]() Stencil’s quest is absurd from the beginning Oedipa’s moves from normality into strangeness and, unlike Stencil, she realizes how a plethora of information constantly sidetracks her from a simple search. Stencil personified an absurdly blinkered activity, Oedipa is much closer to a conventional fictional character because Pynchon grants her more awareness. Oedipa is named as co-executor for a dead real-estate tycoon and former lover - Pierce Inverarity - and during her investigations into his estate stumbles across an underground postal network whose roots lie in Renaissance Europe. ![]() Oedipa Maas although, as we shall see, this method presents Pynchon with certain formal difficulties. The novel’s perspective throughout stays close to that of its protagonist Mrs. ![]() 1 It is less than a quarter its length, it appears to possess a simple linear plot, and it covers both a short time-span and a very specific local area - Southern California. Although published only three years after V., The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) makes a staggering contrast with the earlier novel. ![]()
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