"Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon

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"Introduction


This essay examines the character, Oedipa Maas, who is the protagonist in Thomas Pynchon's second novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1965). Essentially, this novel is concerned with a quest for meaning--a situation also true of Pynchon's first novel V. As Robert A. Hipkiss suggests: "Oedipa Maas inherits Stencil's role as the seeker after a moral order underlying an apparently amoral, perhaps inherently immoral, world. Like Stencil, she sees man's destiny in either/or terms . . ." (11).


For the purpose of communicating his concepts concerning Oedipa and the world in which she lives, Pynchon uses such literary techniques.as Menippean satire. Northrop Frye describes this approach: "The Menippean satire deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes. Pedants, bigots, cranks..."

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