Thomas Pynchon--Eine Rasterfahndung

[Dave Monroe]

Anyway, having heard my name called (hey, Rich),
here's an item that was brought recently to my
attention ...

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3934120652/o/qid=990512842/sr=8-1/302-1328435-0280005

Using the ol' Google "automatic translation," this
apparently means "Thomas Pynchon--A raster search." 
The description is translated as follows ...

"Who is Thomas Pynchon? For many author colleagues and
 literary critics he is a most important American
writer  of the post-war period--but its colleague
Salman Rushdie calls it simply 'the invisible one' and
also the usual literature dictionaries has hardly more
than information-pours a gravestone to offer:
'Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles, born in Glen Clove, New
York, 8 May 1937, writer.'

"Denis cheque, literature editor with the
Deutschlandfunk, created unexpected views of the
factory of this author in a Collage from interviews   
                 port-guessed/advised, enabled. 

"With Saul Bellow, William Gaddis, Heinz Ickstadt,
Friedrich Kittler, Michael Naumann, Philip Roth, Harry
Rowohlt among other things."

... so, unless somebody has more info, or will at
least offer a better translation, your guess is as
good as mine (esp. on "interviews
port-guessed/advised, enabled").  Apparently, we're
still a ways away from one o' those "Star Trek"-style
universal translators (and note that the program
translated the, er, "author's" last name, not to
mention "its" for "his" ...).  Here's another clue ...

"Who is this man? The usually-looked up author        
         America: Thomas Pynchon, last sighted before
20 years.  Denis cheque--Publisher, writer and
critic--asked and tried to approach to that phantom
Pynchon. Its raster search appeared with hearing book
Hamburg."

www.br-online.de/kultur/literatur/lesezeichen/20010225/buecherliste_0225.txt

Well, I ordered one, at any rate, so we'll see (or, at
any rate, I'll hear) ...



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