Reich-Ranicki v. Grass

[Otto Sell]

Thanks,
that guy (MRR) is really an asshole. He may call himself literary critic but
in fact is ... he is older than me and my mom told me not to talk bad about
old people.
I'm sure Grass has read his Fontane but for MRR it's unbearable to put such
an icon of German literature (to me Fontane is simply boring, Grass could be
the only one to make me read him) in a "postmodern" (MRR hates it, all
pomo) novel.

"The irony that this Polish Jew should have emerged as a champion of German
civilization, berating Grass for his irreverent postmodernist games with
Theodor Fontane as much as for his libels against a united Germany, would
not have been lost on his readers and viewers (...)"

Are you American p-listers still watching Oprah Winfrey? I've stopped
watching "Das Literarische Quartett" because it became more and more
unsatisfactory and a waste of time.

A "champion of German civilization?" -oboy.
MRR's only real achievement is a very questionable tv-show. He's no real
literary critic and there's better educational entertainment at any English
Department of many universities here and elsewhere, I bet.

Every time I go online and get my mail I find more and most of all more
important information concerning literature.

Otto

"Here comes another winter waiting for Utopia -
waiting for hell to freeze over."
(The The, Heartland)

Original Message -----
From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 2:23 AM
Subject: Reich-Ranicki v. Grass
>
> Interesting article at
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/02/text/spectrum2.html
>
> best