The Gnostic Pynchon

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

jbor schrieb:

> Actually, that postmodern writer label is his stay of execution imo. It's
> traditional philosophy which has him coded and compartmentalised on the
> library catalogue between Barbara Pym and Ayn Rand, and the traditional
> critics who would have him share the bookstore shelves with Mailer, Updike
> and Wolfe.

  in my house trp shares a book-shelf with brinkmann & heidegger. - kfl

> With postmodernism those nooses of nationality and temporality and
> disciplinarity have begun to unravel. We can talk about Pynchon in the same
> breath as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne and Joyce, or Kant, Nietzsche,
> Wittgenstein and Jung without getting driven from the campus.