pynchon mention in franzen interview

[Richard Romeo]

one wonders if pynchon or delillo's work can be reduced to "playful 
postmodern irony"
playful isn't a word I'd use to adequately describe the range of Pynchon's 
moods and styles or the seriousness of most of DeLillo's writings.

thx for the update, k.

rich


>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (lorentzen-nicklaus)
>Reply-To: <040811713-0001 at t-online.de>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: pynchon mention in franzen interview
>Date: 24 Jun 2002 14:02 GMT
>
>
>
>* "both authors [delillo & pynchon] were models for me for a long time. 
>it's the way they, permanently threatened by tv and the atomic bomb, tried 
>to picture a social totality as perfect as possible while keeping an ironic 
>distance to the world we're living in. one has to be smart to do this, and 
>self-confident, but for me this playful postmodern irony wasn't enough 
>anymore. i wanted a novel in which ..." --- from this week's 'der spiegel', 
>p. 151, own translation.
>
>
>did this dude ever read vineland? kfl ***


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.