Pynchon as world author

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

> From:          Adam Lou Stephanides <astephan at students.uiuc.edu>

> This gives me an opportunity to ask a question I've been curious about:
> what is Pynchon's international reputation?  I know there are a number
> of non-U.S. people on this list, but is Pynchon generally recognized
> outside the U.S. as a great author, in more or less the same way as
> such non-U.S. authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez are recognized here
> as great?

Here in South Africa TRP is woefully under-represented at University 
level, though recognized as part of the canon. (Outside the ivory 
towers, nobody has ever heard of him.) And Joyce isn't doing much 
better. At the University of Cape Town only _Portrait of the Artist_ 
is presently offered (English I, Modernism) while TRP features only 
via COL49 (part of JM Coetzee's section of the MA in Literary Studies 
course). 

hg
hag at iafrica.com