In any case, the drive of Oedipa-like that of her tragic/mythic namesake-to solve the riddle of her and her country’s suffering leads her to discover that she is inextricably entangled in a closed and indeed incestuous system of an overweening fate. Or it is a hoax played on Oedipa by her enigmatic lover. Tristero is either a menacing and nearly omnipotent force of underground social control or else a medium of exchange for all outcast and dispossessed people.
named San Narciso, and there Oedipa begins to glimpse a vast conspiracy involving a subterranean postal service called Tristero, which was founded by a disinherited Spanish aristocrat at the end of the Thirty Years’ War. She travels from her domestic normality in Kinneret-among-Pines to a town near L.A. A summary of this classic 1965 short novel’s unsummarizable plot: California housewife Oedipa Maas becomes executor (“or she supposed executrix”) of the will of her late lover, real-estate magnate Pierce Inverarity.
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