Szymon Krawiec

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  36 What life changing novels can you recommend?
  By Travis Buechner · University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  Szymon Krawiec · University of Warsaw

  Pynchon's Lot 49 was undoubtedly the book which helped me to understand the present. Pynchon alludes to the ambiguity of personal perspective which i... [more]

  Pynchon's Lot 49 was undoubtedly the book which helped me to understand the present. Pynchon alludes to the ambiguity of personal perspective which is dismembered by means of visions of violence and exploitation. Pynchon shows us how little control we have over our bodies and how the horror that surrounds us, wars, diseases, crises, leads us to paranoia, doubt and confusion. We suffer from constant pain which leads to omnipresent ugliness and disgust. The border between the beautiful and the ugly vanishes in Lot 49 and gives us the entropic uniformness of landscape, life, emotion. The world becomes the same. People become the same. They co-exist with material objects in the process of constant interconnection. Pynchon's cars become people and vice versa. This pre-digitality of his oeuvre helped me to see the technological sublime in the on-line world of ours.
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  17 Need help
  By Jhie Rahim ·
  Szymon Krawiec · University of Warsaw

  Dear Prakash, why don't you start with Kristeva? However, I don't know whether you're preoccupied with intertextuality per se or the play with interte... [more]

  Dear Prakash, why don't you start with Kristeva? However, I don't know whether you're preoccupied with intertextuality per se or the play with intertextuality.
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  7 Post-modern fiction and Pynchon
  By Miloš Jocić · Univerzitet u Novom Sadu
  Szymon Krawiec · University of Warsaw

  Here's the must by Lyotard: ''The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge'' 

  Here's the must by Lyotard: ''The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge''
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  7 Post-modern fiction and Pynchon
  By Miloš Jocić · Univerzitet u Novom Sadu
  Szymon Krawiec · University of Warsaw

  In order to understand postmodern American fiction, you should definetely read a couple of essays by Lyotard concerning his outlook on the metanarrati... [more]

  In order to understand postmodern American fiction, you should definetely read a couple of essays by Lyotard concerning his outlook on the metanarrative. In order to understand Pynchon's 49 try to take a closer look at the notion of entropy and paranoia in the 20th c. American literature. Tony Tanner's essay entitled ''Entropy'' should be quite exhaustive. As for the starter, I suggest Coover's ''The Babysitter,'' Doctorow's ''Welcome to Hard Times,'' Bartheleme's ''Snow White'' and Auster's ''Oracle Night,'' or Barth's ''The Nigh-Sea Journey'' Should you have any questions, feel free to contact me priv.
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  9 Good method for criticizing literary work
  By Jhie Rahim ·
  Szymon Krawiec · University of Warsaw

  Perhaps you should list titles of books you'd like to criticise. Our task would be easier then. Thanks in advance:) 

  Perhaps you should list titles of books you'd like to criticise. Our task would be easier then. Thanks in advance:)
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