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Abstract
This dissertation focuses on Pynchon’s novels which exemplify Linda Hutcheon’s definition of historiographic metafiction. The novels analyzed in this study share most ofthe characteristically postmodem poetics of what Hutcheon has termed historiographic metafiction. In these novels, Pynchon intentionally problematizes narrative representation through the construction of unreliable, multiple or overtly manipulative narrators. Pynchon’s manipulation of point of view creates confusion to the reader who questions the reliability of the narrator and his sources. These multiple points of view blur the line between objective history and subjectivity, proving that what ”really happened” is nothing more than a construction of several narrators. Pynchon proves that there are multiple ways of narrating history and organizing historical data. What are reported in theses novels as facts often turns out to be fabrication.