Pynchon in Peck Review

[Richard Romeo]

I don't necessarily disagree with him--I would say that the new crop of 
fiction writers who have been influenced by folks like DeLillo, Gaddis etc. 
are trying to move away from those antecedents, going more for the character 
driven, neo-realist narrative that we know and love but incorporating 
elements of the post-modern tradition of their forebears:  these hybrid 
creations for the most part are what the new crop of Lethems, Wallaces, 
Franzens, Powers, Scholz are up to--with very mixed results--it's funny but 
all these writers are just too realistic for me.
give me uncle sam buggering a president or a were-beaver anytime.

rich






>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>To: tyronemullet at hotmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Pynchon in Peck Review
>Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:08:48 -0500
>
>
>A lot of bad-mouthing of some of the greatest authors ever by Mr. Peck.
>What or whom does he suggest would have been a better course than the
>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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