Pynchon and G. Perec, second try

[Arne Herl|v Petersen]

On Sat, 29 Jan 1994, Jorn Barger wrote:

> 
> > [...] there is lot of Perec in Pynchon's book ( or vice versa ).
> 
> Looks plausible to me!
> 
> I found "V" pretty unreadable in the last half... how's Perec for
> style/readability?
> 
> jorn
> 

Perec are really three Perecs. "Les choses" (1965) is Minimalist, cool,
reserved, very French. The bizarre lettrist experiments of the seventies
are a strange mixture of Baroque, Dada and weird parlor games.
But the third Perec, the Perec of "La vie mode d'emploi" (1978) is a novel
which somehow goes off in several directions at the same time and, indeed,
related to Pynchon in spirit if not in form.

Arne Herlov