Spielberg and Pynchon

[Andrew Clarke Walser]

	I agree with most of the criticisms of SCHINDLER'S LIST.
If, as Adorno said, one cannot write a poem after the Holocaust,
one can also no longer make a docudrama -- certainly not the kind
Spielberg gives us.
	Does Pynchon, I wonder, do much better with the Holocaust?  In
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, he seems content to keep the subject off to the side --
a wise decision, perhaps, since I cannot imagine our author exercising for
long the kind of restraint that characterizes the work of Primo Levi or
Aharon Appelfeld. 
	
				Andrew Walser
				University of Illinois-Chicago