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Holy sinners: narrative betrayal and thematic machination in Thomas Mann’s and Thomas Pynchon’s novels

Neohelicon volume ?40 ,? pages 199?208 ( 2013 ) Cite this article

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This study draws comparatively on a modern novel?the biblical tetralogy Joseph and his Brothers by Thomas Mann?and on a postmodern? The Crying of Lot 49 ?by Thomas Pynchon. The two authors embark on the same path, although each one in accordance with his own literary age. They astutely highlight a series of illicit but conspicuous transactions between the narrator and his reader, intended to expose the sophisticated machinations of literature and to belie its sweeping “realist” claims. It is not a coincidence that the plots of both novels evolve around various types of machination and betrayal.

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    Monica Spiridon

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Spiridon, M. Holy sinners: narrative betrayal and thematic machination in Thomas Mann’s and Thomas Pynchon’s novels. Neohelicon 40, 199?208 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-013-0174-0

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Keywords

  • Narrative strategies
  • Story and discourse
  • Contingency-order-necessity
  • Tactics of verisimilitude
  • Paradigmatic motivation
  • The spirit of story-telling