Info on gaddis' play on german radio

[Richard Romeo]

Thx for the translation, Kai.  You may want to read Gaddis at some point. I 
can't think of anyone liking Pynchon and not getting something out of 
Gaddis.
He's just as encyclopedic with a truly remarkable vision. What a guy.


Rich


>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (Lorentzen / Nicklaus)
>To: richardromeo at hotmail.com
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Info on gaddis' play on german radio
>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:57:13 +0200
>
>
>"Torschlusspanik" is "last-minute panic". Since I know practically nothing 
>about
>Gaddis, I can't tell whether this is the beginning of Agape Agape. The 
>summary
>says that it's about an old man who lies ill on his bed. Around him all the
>things he collected in decades: quotation-lists, newspaper-clips and books. 
>He
>plans to publish a great work about the failing of art & the decline of the
>West. Communicating with the authors' spirits in his archival he believes 
>to
>have found a doubleganger, who has stolen his thoughts a long time ago. 
>What's
>authentic? he asks himself. And the more the planned projects is failing, 
>the
>more arises intensive astonishment about the pluralistic power of the 
>artists
>vision. The monologue is called a fight against "entropy" [- inspired by P. 
>or
>was it the other way round? Or neither nor?].
>
>                                                  Best, Kai

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