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Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide ed. by Jeffrey Severs and Christopher Leise (review)

Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide ed. by Jeffrey Severs and... by critical distance, not by just another ideological bias. She does not squarely con- demn the literary production and translation that was rigorously supervised by ideologues and even censors. e b Th ook is written in an accessible style and at the same time meets the rig- orous requirements of a scholarly text. Another virtue of Čerče’s style is its concise- ness—the author does not digress from her clearly articulated aims. The thematic division into parts ree fl cts the autonomous nature of the three units within the whole. What is potentially misleading and does not quite ree fl ct the content is the title of the book. A signic fi ant portion of Čerče’s study is related to her native Slo- venia, rather than the whole of Eastern Europe. Chapter nine then discusses the novels in question predominantly outside the arena of the Eastern bloc, drawing especially upon works of U.S. critics. This minor objection by no means detracts from the outstanding quality of Čerče’s text. In fact, Čerče has opened a whole new sube fi ld within Steinbeck scholarship and, in doing so, invites other scholars from Eastern Europe to further cultivate this fertile furrow in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide ed. by Jeffrey Severs and Christopher Leise (review)

Hoberek, Andrew,
The Comparatist , Volume 37 – May 12, 2013
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by critical distance, not by just another ideological bias. She does not squarely con- demn the literary production and translation that was rigorously supervised by ideologues and even censors. e b Th ook is written in an accessible style and at the same time meets the rig- orous requirements of a scholarly text. Another virtue of Čerče’s style is its concise- ness—the author does not digress from her clearly articulated aims. The thematic division into parts ree fl cts the autonomous nature of the three units within the whole. What is potentially misleading and does not quite ree fl ct the content is the title of the book. A signic fi ant portion of Čerče’s study is related to her native Slo- venia, rather than the whole of Eastern Europe. Chapter nine then discusses the novels in question predominantly outside the arena of the Eastern bloc, drawing especially upon works of U.S. critics. This minor objection by no means detracts from the outstanding quality of Čerče’s text. In fact, Čerče has opened a whole new sube fi ld within Steinbeck scholarship and, in doing so, invites other scholars from Eastern Europe to further cultivate this fertile furrow in the

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Published: May 12, 2013

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