antw. Re: w.a.s.t.e. recommendations

[Marcelo Ketelhuth]

Unfortunatelly, I'm also beginning to discover Mr. Wallace's little tricks
and cannot add further comments on his work. Just read "BIwHM" and thought
about mentioning it since Wallace's books are frequently compared to
Pynchon's. Anyway, he is for sure a very talented writer, a "clever" guy
which nows how to design funny stuff. "BIwHM" is probably overdone, all
those repetitions, never-ending footnotes and paranoid framework. But didn't
they call GR a overwritten book?

I'm currently working on Humberto Eco's "Focault's Pendulum", which has also
some features that could entertain pynchonauts. Information, lots of it,
some kabalah and interesting dialogues you'd like to participate in.


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Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: re: Re: antw. Re: w.a.s.t.e. recommendations


>
>
> Marcelo Ketelhuth schrieb:
>
> > - David Foster Wallace's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
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>
>   i like "girl with curious hair" better; BIwHM is, for my taste, partly
>   overdone ( - take the 'meta-meta-fiction' stuff in "octet"). but as a
coherent
>   collection of prose pieces it's certainly a very complex composition and
there
>   are, like in "infinite jest" (of which i have read now about 1/4 ), many
gems
>   to find. i'm still not sure what to think of wallace ... kai
>
>   ps. "I kept flashing back to a weak joke during a freshman religion
survey we
>   all had to take as an undergrad: the mystic approaches the hot-dog stand
and
>   tells the vendor Make me one with everything." (p. 265, abacus edition)
>
>