Pynchon & Handke & more ?

PK#01 pklist01 at xs4all.nl
Sun Aug 31 09:17:14 CDT 2003


This is my first post so I may be saying something stupid ...

Do other people sense a commonality in "look and feel" between texts of
Pynchon and Handke? Especially some fragments from "Mein Jahr in der
Niemandsbucht" (1994) - descriptions of places, scenes and insights - have
the same atmosphere like similar descriptions in Pynchon.
Likewise there might be a similarity in atmosphere between Pynchon and
descriptions of place & atmosphere in Thomas Bernhard - for example in "Das
Kalkwerk".

Because I enjoy descriptions of places , details, dirt spots on walls,
blades of grass, light etc. I would be happy with hints for further
reading - authors that I don't know yet.

Greetings, Petr




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