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Historical sources for Pynchon's Peter Pinguid Society

Eve, Martin Paul (2011) Historical sources for Pynchon's Peter Pinguid Society. Pynchon Notes 56-57 , pp. 242-245. ISSN 0278-1891.

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Abstract

This short piece provides the cumulative textual evidence that Pynchon consulted a single source, Golder, F.A., 1915. ?The Russian Fleet and the Civil War?. The American Historical Review, 20(4), pp.801-812, to construct the historicity of the Peter Pinguid Society episode in The Crying of Lot 49, as opposed to consulting the original Arkhiv Morskogo Ministerstva, Dielo Kantseliarii Morskogo Ministerstva, no. 91, pt. III., pp. 102, 103.

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Item Type: Article
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Literature, Centre for
Depositing User: Martin Eve
Date Deposited: 28 May 2015 08:24
Last Modified: 25 Jul 2025 15:27
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12262

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