John Barth Vs. Pynchon

[Otto Sell]

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From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: John Barth Vs. Pynchon

rj wrote:

> But I'd be very
> interested to find out whether Barth's courses ever prescribed one of
> Pynchon's novels, what he might have said in lectures &c.

Dunno what Barth did but my favorite professor over here did "Chimera," "The
Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbow," what I had read only in the
translation before that course. Apart from the ones who had done Barth too
or the ones who simply had to stay for study-reasons none of the other
students stayed after the initial sessions of GR and so we were a nice group
of ten students for the rest of the semester.

Otto