TY - BOOK AU - Méresse,Bastien TI - “The details ooze away as the sounds of garbage trucks grow” — transactions and transmutations of waste in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge PY - 2019///. N1 - 41 N2 - This article considers rag-picking or the collecting of refuse as a method for the scrutiny of what has been demoted to the status of meaningless detail in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge. While the examination of detail is shaped by the process of sorting looked-over yet valuable materials, Pynchon completes his study of waste as a means to achieve a new division of the perceptible, whereby the emergence of an écriture flâneuse recycles and rehabilitates the landfill of words dumped into the novel UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2019-3-page-174?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -