Knipfel re Pynchon's Foreword to _1984_

[Richard Romeo]

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out, Rich.  
> I wonder if Knipfel has special insight into how/why
> Pynchon got the _1984_ Foreword assignment -- isn't
> he
> represented by Melanie Jackson?
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I believe JK is represented by Ms. Jackson--that, I'm
sure is an answer we'll probably never know

> I like Knipfel's take on the foreword.  He seems to
> recognize that Pynchon's assignment wasn't to write
> a > textbook or monograph about Orwell, and that
Pynchon > takes the opportunity to provide tantalizing
> glimpses
> into his own writing. Dave Monroe is right, the
> foreword is at least as much about Pynchon and his
> writing as it is about _1984_.
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I agree--Pynchon is just riffing as usual.

> 
> As I mentioned earlier, I suspect that the foreword
> points to Pynchon's current novel-in-progress, the
> way
> 
> his 1993 essay "Nearer My Couch to Thee"
> < provides a glimpse at what was to come in M&D,
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let's hope so.

> A Pynchon scholar friend suggests that the
> appearance
> of this Foreword may also be read as an alert that a
> new Pynchon novel could be on its way, the author
> doing what he can to raise his profile a bit --
> without plunging into the celebrity author publicity
> circuit -- in order to help with the marketing of
> his
> book. I hope he's right.
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ditto--with rumors of a russian mathemtician and
pynchon's focus on stalinism in the foreword, well
what does that say--some sort of russian angle?

rich


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