토머스 핀천의 『브이』 : 초월적 기의로서의 브이와 차연에 의한 의미치환 V. as a Transcendental Signified and its Displacements of Meaning by Difference = Thomas Pynchon`s V.

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This paper concentrates on the subject that a transcendental signified, V., is persistently reserved and radiated as the innumerable signifiers by diffe´rence in V. By altering and sliding from the origin, V. is represented with the endless displacements and the differential network of meaning. The signified that can be never grasped is inscribed in the differential traces and emitted as the multiplication of signs like the dissemination and free play. Finally V. is diffused with the remarkably scattered concepts by the exterior additions and the chains of supplement. Pynchon practices the deconstructive writing as a postmodern novelist. He exhibits his ingenuity and elusiveness, showing his insistence of innovation based on the tradition, his acceptance of diversity, and his execution of decenteredness by his anonymity. Pynchon contrives to invent the fictional world established on the actual historic episodes, expanding the possibility of analogical imagination.
Stencil's obsessive quest for V. and Profane's aimless traveling like a yoyoing compose two main axes as the shape of alphabet V. The mutual dependences of two plots play the great roles in presenting the opposition-harmony connections with inanimateness/animateness and hothouse/street. Stencil's detection starts with his suspicion that he is trapped in a labyrinth. His quest affects him to be active, alive and animate, getting out of being inert. Gradually he realize an invisible force and conspiracy by the predominant system, Europe imperialism. It reveals that the history of reason has replicated human lives to be decadent. Stencil is frustrated and fall into dilemma as the results from the excessive accumulation of informations, clues, signs and symptoms.
Though Profane is an aimless wanderer and a useless person like a schlemihl, he gives an important influence in ascending the inanimated and deformed human beings, called by the name of the Whole Sick Crew. Profane is a necessary figure to continue the process of subject construction by refusing the inanimateness endlessly. His pointless wandering displays in detail the world filled with the landscapes of inanimate peoples attached to the machine, resulting in the annihilation of mankind. Pynchon allusively suggests that the passive existences should be the sound compatible counterparts. Such a trial becomes a kind of settlement to prevent the mass degradation.