Pynchon in Peck Review

[Monica Belevan]

I intended to laugh at Peck. I wanted to. I really, really tried. B-but...I 
fell asleep before.

--Monica


>From: alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr
>Reply-To: alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re[2]: Pynchon in Peck Review
>Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:50:20 +0200
>
>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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>  alfredjprufrock                            
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