Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay reads Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 as a self-reflexive text that theorizes its own fiction. The aesthetic flight from the signifying order of the novel is connected to a revolutionary threat to the social order of the novel. Lot 49, however, contains this revolutionary potential through the name “Tristero.” Even if Tristero is the manifestation of a revolutionary movement, it manifests itself along the same structure of power as that which governs the novel and the social order within the novel.
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