2019
Cairn
Bastien Méresse, « « The details ooze away as the sounds of garbage trucks grow » — transactions et transmutations du déchet dans Bleeding Edge de Thomas Pynchon », Revue française d’études américaines, ID : 10670/1.jtu24b
This article considers rag-picking or the collecting of refuse as a method for the scrutiny of what has been demoted to the status of meaningless detail in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge . While the examination of detail is shaped by the process of sorting looked-over yet valuable materials, Pynchon completes his study of waste as a means to achieve a new division of the perceptible, whereby the emergence of an écriture flâneuse recycles and rehabilitates the landfill of words dumped into the novel.