Pynchon mention in article re young German writers

[Richard Romeo]

I don't doubt the talent McElroy has but I think you
can boil down his work not into a word like fiction
but spaces or fields--think I read somewhere this is
term McElroy uses--his short novel Plus is a fine
example of the tearing away of all the
artifice--consciousness is what he's after, depicting
it, the level of reducing the author ala JR, e.g. is
taken to the breaking point ((even more so than Gaddis
(and for McElroy himself), which I feel retains a
level of notable (by the reader)) artifice.
Guess I'm getting older--my attention for such
difficulty has not kept pace.

not to belabor one of your annoyed note before
(pynchon, Gaddis, DeLillo in same sentence) but who
has the range of a Gaddis or Pynchon in terms of
incorporating many different characters into one
cohesive novel today (DeLillo I would not group with
TRP or WG--his range is somewhat limited--he is more
like McElroy, though Delillo is strong on style, very
rich prose but McElroy is better at connecting events,
plot (yes, bleive it or not) and character

franzen, lethem, wallace, delillo etc.--these are our
watered down pynchons and Gaddis.  i feel very lost
not having a new champion

this is all irrelevant anyway

rich

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> > <<McElroy's Lookout Cartridge--guess it must be
> the novels about movies 
> > about movies>>
> > 
> Just picked this up as well, although I haven't
> begun it really, just read 
> the first few pages.
> 
> Odd cut at the beginning from the helicopter to the
> subway caught my 
> interest, not that I cut so easily with it ...
> 
> 
> 


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