Pynchon and G. Perec

[Pampaluna Marco]

> > > [...] 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?
> 
> 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.

i would like to add that Italo Calvino in his "Six American Lessons" referring
to that literature's attribute which is 'multiplicity' ( i hope the spell is
right ), signed Perec as one of the most meaningful example of how a book
can contain whole universes. whole worlds. Calvino cited Borges, Perec, and
i would include Pynchon. i agree totally with relating Pynchon to Perec in
spirit. Calvino who was a close friend of Perec, wrote that Perec had a huge 
number of 'tricks' to build plots, combinations, attributes distributions,
recalls in order to hide a sort of labirynths in the book. i always wondered
if Pynchon had some similar way to set his books. i think the attitude is
quite similar...i think how interesting would be to read both "V." and "La
vie mode d'emploi" with an hypertextual program. 
just some wonderings...

Marchino