Abstract
False self and false elements of the self haunt John Barth's Chimera and Thomas Pynchon's V. In both is the ultimate betrayal of the body, the sexual self; in both is the false, unnatural, substitution of the false for the true limbs, eyes, teeth; in both is the betrayal of the body unused, the atrophying of the self.
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Howe, D. E., (1992) “The Power of Love in Chimera and V”, Pynchon Notes , 165-171. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/pn.239
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