Time and Anachronism in Pynchon's «Vineland»: a Genettean Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze, from a Genettean perspective of temporal order, the influence that numerous anachronies present in the discourse of Vineland (1990), by Thomas Pynchon, may have in the novel as a whole, either by means of analeptical and proleptical movements, or through immersions into hypodiegetic levels. In order to do so, the most widely used theoretical framework, provided by Gérard Genette, will be observed. Besides, this research attempts to evince its weaknesses when applied to postmodernist literature, assisted, moreover, by Brian McHale’s approximations, so that an alternative model of analysis for non-sequential discourse will be suggested.