Postmodern Fetish in Thomas Pynchon’s Novel V

ABSTRACT

From the outset man has tried his best sustain his unified sense of self and Our condition , therefore, is our recognition of and acquiescence in the inescapable absurdities inherent in our material conditions rather than challenging them in search of our programmed meaning, as did the postmodernist who believe that their no more any scope for lamenting the loss of values, for melancholia, and renunciation, as did the romantics with their allegiance to some or the other utopian alternatives; postmodernists on the contrary accept individual’s position amongst the givens that surround us, every one of us is constantly being watched as a microscopic dot on the satellite maps.

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