“’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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Main Author: Bastien Meresse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAES 2020-11-01
Series:Angles
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/angles/2672
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