Vineland

[davemarc]

At 02:42 PM 5/21/96 +0100, you wrote:
>
>This may sound silly, but who cares!?
>I ve often wondered how can we be sure that Vineland was really written 
>by Pynchon. Ok, I mean there are many similarities in style and all that, 
>but I think everybody would agree that no matter how good a book Vineland 
>is it is not as "dense" as V. or GR or even possibly CoL49. I feel that 
>it wouldnt be very hard for a reasonably good writer (or a group of South 
>american magical realists) to produce a forgery that can have the 
>characteristics of Pynchon (it would have to be a major project of course 
>but still not impossible). How can we be sure? Can we trust the editor?
>
>basil
>
>ps. thomas pynchon is carlos fuentes! ;)
>
Well, you do know, don't you, that Carlos Fuentes is actually the front-man
for an otherwise anonymous team of talented Mexican and American writers?
That's why there are such marked differences between "his" works (say,
between *Luna* and *The Death of Artemio Cruz*).  I remember when the whole
team appeared (behind a screen behind Fuentes) on the Dick Cavett show....

davemarc (who doubts the validity of the equation Wanda + Tinasky = Thomas +
Pynchon)