또 다른 단서에 대한 기다림 : 토마스 핀천의 『49호 품목의 경매』 The Crying of Lot 49 = Waiting for another Clue

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Entropy, a thermodynamic concept, is a lack of order in a system. Entropy suggests that the beliefs in stability and order are mere illusions. For Pynchon, this concept(entropy) provides the basic theme and an analogue of the setting of his works. He regards the nature of reality in life as unstable, confused, and even chaotic. Simultaneously he emphasizes the ambiguity in the representation of reality by changing simple facts into complicated ones, certainty into cuncertainty. The mst significant examples are found ton the pristore system which Oeipa seeks in teh Crying of Lot 49.
This novel with the recognition of the modern entropic world. It is teh entropic process that Aaremican society is undergoing that the American housewife Pedipa discovers though her journey. Named as executor of her former loveer Pierece INverarity, Oedipa leaves her everyday life and explorese her society deelpy. Oedipa attemsts order the mass information all seemingto emerge out of the inheritance from Inveratity. But whenever she gets a clue, she needs a another clue to understand the meaning of the first clue. She fails to reach andy conclision.
This novel ends with Oepdipa's waithing, with the true nature of the Trisero never reaveled Pynchon does not solve the proprositions, but leaves them to the reader of the novel. The open ending, which embraces all the possibilities, is one of Pyunchon's fictional narrative techniques as a post-modern writer. Pynchon suggests a more comprehensive wolrd view by deconstructing the ordered and logical sorld of dichotomy: good/bad, order/disorer. What he proposes in thes novel is a new insight by which we can break away from rigied thingking. Pynchon implies that nultiple realities cannot be reconciled to an abusuoute orderly system. He suggests what we should have a new consciousness which does not exclude and denigrate other realities.