![]() ![]() ![]() For this reason, “V.” must never be found. To put an end to the process of reading would be to lose one’s human spontaneity. As his name implies, Stencil can only trace the outlines of that which he seeks his search is, to a certain extent, a fruitless yearning for truth. Reading is here a process without progress and without terminus: Stencil never succeeds in identifying the initial’s referent. Stencil is a reader, broadly understood: He attempts to interpret the meaning of an initial. ![]() The plot concerns Stencil, the son of a now-deceased British foreign officer, who, accompanied by eponymous “schlemihl” Benny Profane, half-heartedly searches for the elusive “V.”–who might be a woman, a thing, a concept, a sewer rat, or nothing at all. (1963) is about the act of reading itself and the possibility or impossibility of self-reading. Like most meta-fictional narratives, Thomas Pynchon’s first novel, V. –Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilĪll readers undergo a voyage to discover hidden meanings–a voyage which is also a passage of self-discovery. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE FACTS ON FILE COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN NOVELĪn Analysis of V. ![]() IF YOU ARE AT LEAST TWENTY-EIGHT (28) YEARS OF AGE, CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE TO READ MY NOVEL WATCH OUT: THE FINAL VERSION! ![]()
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