Sandro Veronesi

[Burns, Erik]

Foax:

Italian writer Sandro Veronesi makes his American debut this week with 
"The Force of the Past." It's an amusing little Vespa ride through one 
man's mid-life crisis. But for Pynchon fans, note that the book's coda 
- not really part of the narrative - is a retelling of the "golden 
screw" joke. Don't know why - though it does make thematic sense, 
(though I see thematic sense in the golden screw joke no matter what 
the theme is.) He doesn't reference Pynchon, natch. Calls it a "a very 
old story, that many have told in many different ways, though at bottom 
it has always been the same."

At bottom, indeed.

etb