SLSL character vs narrator?

[jbor]

on 1/12/02 8:19 AM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> And, no offence to the man himself intended, Hollander mistakes Levine for
> "the narrator":

Hollander: 

    Pynchon describes Levine as "almost but not quite me," in the
    introduction to Slow Learner. [...]

http://www.vheissu.be/art/art_eng_SL_hollander.htm

    >> we
    >> should note that he gave Levine, this "almost me"
    >> character, the first name Nathan.

Cf. Pynchon:

      At the heart of the story, most crucial and worrisome, is the
    defective way in which my narrator, almost but not quite me, deals
    with the subject of death. (p. 5)

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