Inarticulate plots: Pynchon

As opposed to the more recent tendencies of some of the American writers such as Saul Bellow who depicts the inarticulateness of their heroes as am expression of the chaos created by their minds — via analytic analysis, there are writers such as John Barth, and Vladimir Nabokov who create mental order, not out of the chaos but through a design of imagination. These writers very often cut the traditional link between silence and the colloquial jusit in order to see the world as a puzzle. But the linh between tradition is sitili persistent within the new forms, and it is specially so in ithe case of Thomas Pynchon. Pynchon is the w riter who deals the problem of communication, language and its messages, or »leakage« in messages. The massage and communicational system is given in the detective story The Crying of Lot 49, actually the message is carried via major heroes in the story. The negative alternaitive status of Pyn chon’s vision has been pointed at, the vision of disinherited masses, oucast in society, and it has been indicated that this wasn’t exclusively Pynchon’s message, but that of other American writers such as Thoreau, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner. Finally one can conclude that silent, nameless world of masses really works de-moralizing, but the question undoubtedely remains, and that is the question of positive message and a definitive trying effort in establishing communication even though it might be contained within negative effirmation, the inarticulate one.