author's bios, etc

[David Nevin Friedman]

Two things about Roman's extrapolations: 
1) isn't all literature meant to 'shore up our ruins'?  

and 2) about Pynchon's being modern, postmodern, or
whatever: an interesting book, _The Great War and Modern Memory_
investigates literary modernism (Eliot, Faulkner, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka,
etc.) in light of the fact that WWI (and other events) led these authors
to detach from the world of the sentimental narrative a la Hardy, Austen,
et al....In any event, the author, Paul Fusell, examines at great length
Gravity's Rainbow as the prime example of the _postmodern_ narrative.  


SO, I was wondering, how many people out there do not think Pynchon's work
is postmodern (if that term has any investigatory merit)???

Dave

PS, the bibliographic info for Fusell's book for those interested: Fusell,
Paul, _The Great War and Modern Memory_, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1977. 

PPS, this seems to be a fairly important book (for those who judge a
book's merit by the awards it has received): 1976 National Book Award for
Arts & Letters, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, the
Ralph Waldo Emerson award of Phi Beta Kappa....

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