Lawrence Norfolk

[Richard Romeo]

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>Richard Romeo wrote:
> > I seem to recall that while Norfolk's stories are adventorous, they rang 
> > > oddly hollow to this reader--more like eco, lots of erudition but 
>seemed > > like set-pieces for the research, I'm thinking also of The Black 
>Book by > > Pamuk--more metaphysical mysteries.
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>A lot of people say that about Pynchon . . .
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I guess what I'm after is when I writer fully integrates what's he learned 
into his story and not writing a story solely around his research. Entropy, 
for example, is a story that would be guilty of the latter.

Pamuk does look more profound than he is but he is more
>lyrical, and I imagine a lot is lost for the non-Turk. The New Life
>(about riding buses in an ambivalent death wish) was quite haunting.
>("Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus
>driven by a maniac bent on suicide." --Gravity's Rainbow).
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you're probably right, e. won't blame a translation only. part of the blame 
is my own laziness. couldn't connect to what was happening in the black 
book, is all.

Rich

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