Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
Violence, renessaince revenge drama,
in which everybody dies. Allusions to the holocaust. European fudual wars in the middle ages.
Pierce Inverarity can be interpretated as a global, who manipulates reality. Oedipas identity
changes throughout the novel, at the beginnnign she is Mrs. Mars, at the end she is Mr. Mars.
She realizies that there might be another America, both culturally and socially, in this sense
the novel can be treated as a bildungs roman-novel of growing up, education, maturytiy and
so on. The idea of entropy, whether the universe is changing or dyeing. The names of the
heroes and heroines are important. Inverarity looks like inverse rarity, term from stamp
collection, watermark is inversed, unusual stamp-looking into the truth. Oedipas husband is
Mucho Mars-much more- wants to embrace the entire world under the influence of lsd.
Postmodern scizoprhenic, his identity has melted into other peoples identitys. Dr. Hillarious-is
unhappylly crazy