languages

[Paul Delany]

Apropos the discussion of Perec: it's pretty evident that Pynchon
knows Spanish, but is there evidence of a reading knowledge of either
German or French?
  This relates to the general question of Pynchon's "secondariness" -
it's very difficult to tell if TP knows the "real" London that's
evoked in GR, and his German and Germany seems equally a "construct"
from U.S. representations of them in TV and movies. How much does
this matter, anyway?
  Paul Delany