Twentieth-century lit

[Otto Sell]

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From: Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
To: <jeremy at xyris.com>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Twentieth-century lit

Jeremy schrieb:

> In today's Feed --
> http://www.feedmag.com/templates/daily_master.php3?a_id=1388 --
> Jefferson Chase says that "Midnight's Children, One Hundred Years of
> Solitude, perhaps even Gravity's Rainbow are unthinkable without it";
> "it" is *The Tin Drum*.

  if one is saying that gravity's rainbow is unthinkable without ulysses,
dem
  mann ohne eigenschaften or dr. strangelove: alright. but blechtrommel?!
och
  nö, kinners, nö, dat is doch dumm tüch ... kfl

Apart from the fact that GR, TD and MC are revisiting history ironically,
thus can be seen in the corner of "historiographic metafiction" I think it
is too far stretched to see a deeper relation of "The Tin drum" and
"Gravity's Rainbow," indeed, as we say in lower German, "Tünkram, wat der
Lorbass da verteld." (I remember they used the east-Prussian dialect word
"Lorbass" in the movie, but checking it in the text, the scene with the eels
in the horsehead, it isn't there, it appears to be an invention of the
script author).

Otto