Your May in Norway

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

The Norwegian publishing house Gyldendal published
 t  h  r  e  e   Pynchon novels simultaneously on
the man's 65th birthday: the first Norwegian prints
of _V._ and _Mason & Dixon_, and the reprint of
_Katalog 49_ (orig. 1977).

For an article on the event in the Norwegian paper
"Dagbladet", see
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2002/05/06/329142.html

Not totally unrelated to the above spectacle, the
Norwegian academic publishing house Novus is bringing
out [please pardon the partial self-promotion] a critical
essay collection on TRP, _Blissful Bewilderment: Studies
in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon_, eds. Anne Mangen and
Rolf Gaasland:

http://www.novus.no/Katalog2/82-7099-352-2.html

A truly Northern collection, it is edited by two great
Norwegians, and the contributors come from Canada,
Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.



Heikki