Pynchon in Peck Review

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

dale peck?
dale cooper, fbi agent?
gregory peck?
i think the man does not like metafiction. here's an example of what
he can write:
 http://www.echonyc.com/~meehan/PECK/Peck.html

hm. what can i say. he gets sentencious even in his fiction,
apparently (if that's fiction). well. i'd say he'd suggest hemingway
and carver and possibly himself. writers he'd like to emulate and who learned a
lot more than he did from the writers he despises.



DM> A lot of bad-mouthing of some of the greatest authors ever by Mr. Peck.  
DM> What or whom does he suggest would have been a better course than the 
DM> tradition maligned below?

>>From: "Steve Maas" <tyronemullet at hotmail.com>
>>
>>From Dale Peck:
>>
>>"Again, this is not meant to malign the aforementioned writers. I don't 
>>want to suggest that they are uniformly talentless or misguided; or that 
>>there is a conspiracy among them, or among them and the editors of The New 
>>Yorker or Harper's or The Paris Review; or that they invest any of their 
>>energy in excluding others from the upper echelons of the literary world. 
>>All I'm suggesting is that these writers (and their editors) see themselves 
>>as the heirs to a bankrupt tradition. A tradition that began with the 
>>diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses; continued on through the 
>>incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of 
>>Nabokov; and then burst into full, foul life in the ridiculous dithering of 
>>Barth and Hawkes and Gaddis, and the reductive cardboard constructions of 
>>Barthelme, and the word-by-word wasting of a talent as formidable as 
>>Pynchon's; and finally broke apart like a cracked sidewalk beneath the 
>>weight of the stupid--just plain stupid--tomes of DeLillo."
>>

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