book rec?/ if you enjoyed P, try these /++

[Vivek Ahlawat]

For me reading Pynchon was opening out and wiping the
windscreen a bit. He helped me to appreciate and
tackle other writers, and not always necessarily read
in the same wavelength. Fat, brain drenching, fully
crafted, alive narratives: a big YES. Granted that the
American writers who offer similar experiences have
vital things to say but too much of them degenerates
into endless discussions about TV: and the American
experience is not the only option in the world even
for Americans who ought to try a little more of what
at times of Nobel they simply can't recognize and term
obscure. I hope some of us general non academics have
the appetite and here we won't get into a learned bow
wow over the merits of canon and multiculturalism.
Once again I want to reiterate with 5 *s and 14 canons
George Perec's Life: A User's Manual, which is right
up there with GR and Ulysses and fans of P should find
it equally exciting and satisfying. 
--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> << My guess is that even yr more motivated raeders
> here know little to 
> nothing of a
>  fair number of Nobel Laureates.  >>
> 
> When Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel in 1980, the only
> person in New York who 
> could be found who had read him was Susan Sontag,
> who was quoted in virtually 
> all the news reports.
> 
> In 1981, Elias Canetti won and editors were calling
> "get me Susan Sontag." 
> 
> <<Petersburg is an all-out neglected modernist
> classic, a sort of Russian 
> Ulysses ... >>
> 
> Nabokov held Petersburg with Ulysses, The
> Metamorphosis, and In Search of 
> Lost Time, as the best novels of the century.
> 
> 


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