“’Tis a reckless Debowch of a Game”: Chance and Resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels
This paper seeks to consider games — and more particularly card games and gambling — as an American form of resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s novels. As opposed to agôn, a category of games that Roger Caillois delineates in Man, Play and Games (1958) as “a combat in which equality of chances is artific...
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2020-11-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/2672 |