NP German Literature

[Monica Belevan]

Otto, thanks for the posting.

Perhaps you--or some other of our German posters here--have read any of this 
new German literature? From what I glean from the reviews, most of them seem 
to have a very occipital, urban thematic. It does not seem to be in the 
grand epic Germanic tradition ( from which I myself think Pynchon takes some 
influence), or demanding any special commitments on the readers behalf.

The tendency is the same in Latin America, a dishevelled casualness about 
the language, an unprolix pish posh of metaphysics and dimestore melodrama. 
I do not know if this tendency is amply reflected in Germany, if it has 
almost generalized itself into a prevalent aesthetic--it just seems a 
literature both accesible for the reader, and yet easier on the writer.

I have not read any of these book, but the contemporary consciousness seems 
to be set on one same axis. What is really new these days in literature?

Love, Monica


>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: NP German Literature
>Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:02:36 +0200
>
>Translated German titles to be published in the USA in 2002 and beyond
>http://www.frankfurt-book-fair.com/gbo/gbo-e/booknews-e/01793/frames.html
>
>Reviews in English on new German literature:
>http://www.new-books-in-german.com/reviews.html
>http://www.new-books-in-german.com/backlist.html
>(all of them)
>
>
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