![]() ![]() Chapter 14’s prima ballerina, the young Mélanie l’Heuremaudit, is made inanimate through sexual objectification and fetishization (poetically, she performs alongside automatons). We are first introduced to Rachel Owlglass, in Chapter 1, as a woman in love with her own car. This is part of a larger theme in the novel: a creeping loss of humanity, symbolically portrayed in various characters. 26), he is not too different from a scientific dummy (p. In fact, Pynchon repeatedly likens Profane to various objects: he is a “yo-yo” (p. ![]() This is not the end of Profane’s uncomfortable relationship with inanimate objects. Profane believes in a “law of retribution” between him and the inanimate world, in which he is the constant loser: he is a schlemihl, prone to mishaps and misfirings. ![]() If Benny Profane is the novel’s protagonist, then every inanimate object-from a machine gun to an alarm clock-is the antagonist. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |