Pynchon mention

[Otto]

It's been mostly ignored that it's American literature (except the fact that
there's slavery of course), seen as typical boys' adventure literature.
I don't think that anybody has called it quintessentially American. And
Twain hadn't been presented to me at school.

I've read "Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn" only once after I had finished
Fenimore Cooper (short version of all five big novels in one book) when I
was maybe ten or twelve years old, after seeing the tv-mini series. I guess
that after finishing it I returned for another time to F.C. which I've read
several times before I finally got the full novels much later (in 1986). For
some reason in my mind Tom & Huck never became such American heroes
as Nat Bumppo and Chingachgook.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: vze422fs at verizon.net
To: Elainemmbell at aol.com ; malignd at yahoo.com ; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon mention
>
> I'm curious as to the opinions of our European friends. Was Twain
> presented to them as something quintessentially American? Or ignored
> altogether?
>
> Joe
>

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