european son /: pynchon mention in conference review

[Richard Romeo]

> RRomeo:
> 
> <<but they are more in the Corrections vein--large
> in
> scope but pretty much realistic narratives ...>>
> 
> And this is a bad thing why?
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it isn't bad for that, of course. This is solely a
personal preference. I was speaking from the view that
novels I tend to like have something mysterious about
them-- see e.g., The Recognitions, GR, Under the
Volcano, books that beautiful and bizarre, but retains
readibility.
The breadth of vision and characterization is wide of
course in The Corrections, Underworld, and in Powers
new book, too but I don't find these books all that
mysterious. And by focusing on the dysfunctional
family as they revisit major historical events since
1945, well I'm not enamored of that.

> And (by the way) didn't you say you found (Philip)
> Roth and Nabokov boring?  Care to elaborate?
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I can acknowledge the greatness of these writers, no
doubt. I'll have to think a wee bit of why I these
guys don't do it for me. 
Hard for me to come up with a succinct answer right
now.
I do feel a bit oppressed by Nabokov's authors games
and Roth's plumbing of the sexual relations wars. and
both do have some sort of obsession with identity
which I'm ambivalent about.

rich
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