Warning: re. Pynchon & messages via Jules

[Craig Clark]

Vaska wrote: 
   > You might want to know that Radio B92 is the only publisher of translations
   > of Pynchon's work that have appeared anywhere on the territory of former
   > Yugoslavia.  They have now been banned.

I asked:
   >Does the banning extend to TRP's works? Just curious...

You replied:
   > No sweetheart: it just means the stuff doesn't get published any more.

Sorry if my question led to any misunderstanding - I wasn't trying to be 
flippant, and I have been following the B92 story as it breaks in SA 
(and indeed the story of internal opposition to Milosevic) with 
considerable interest (the parallels with South Africa are telling).

What I was actually trying to find out was the relationship between 
the radio station and the act of publication (it's very unusual, in my 
experience, for radio stations to be involved in publishing), and whether 
or not the banning extended to any other ventures, such as 
publication, with which B92 might be involved. Of course if the 
broadcasts are subsidising the publications, banning the broadcasts 
serves as a useful way of silencing dissent in printed form...

 
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"