Pynchon, anonymity and celebrity

[Melinda]

I'm afraid that without my la perla lingerie on I
might somehow... offend you... and I would hate to do
that...

--- Joel Katz <mittelwerk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> well, he sounds sort of like....a real person.  a
> nice guy.  i'm shocked.  
> where's melinda, now that i need comforting....
> 
> 
> >From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
> (lorentzen-nicklaus)
> >Reply-To: <040811713-0001 at t-online.de>
> >To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: re: Pynchon, anonymity and celebrity
> >Date: 08 Apr 2004 14:57 GMT
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >- Though more biographical than 'academic', the
> following
> >3 titles might be helpful:
> >
> >* Andrew Gordon: Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon:
> >A Sixties Memoir (in: The Vineland Papers, pp.
> 167-178.)
> >
> >* Jules Siegel: Lineland
> >
> >* Mathew Winston: The Quest for Pynchon (in:
> Twentieth
> >Century Literature, 21, pp. 278-287)
> >
> >
> >KFL +
> >
> >
> >"Pynchon is no nerd, but the relative banality of
> his
> >conversation ('Hey, man, would you like a joint?')
> and
> >his reticence made it hard to get a focus on the
> man
> >behind the books. But that's not surprising:
> Pynchon
> >interposes his fictions between himself and the
> world.
> >His novels are an elaborate screen he can hide
> behind,
> >a form of both self-expression and self-effacement.
> The
> >woman who brought us together once offered to
> arrange
> >for Pynchon to speak in a university auditorium.
> She told
> >him she could assure his anonymity by having him
> speak
> >through a microphone from behind a screen. He
> refused:
> >'They would still be able to recognize my voice.'
> Ironically,
> >that is exactly the situation of Pynchon's readers:
> he
> >speaks to us from behind a screen, but we recognize
> him
> >by his voice, that unmistakable Pynchon style./
> Nevertheless,
> >from my brief encounter with Pynchon I gleaned a
> few things
> >about the man behind the screen. I know that he
> follows
> >the reviews and evidently cares what critics say
> about
> >him. That he probably has help with his research.
> That
> >he usually works slowly and ..." (Gordon, 174f)
> >
> >
> >
> >"John M. Krafft" <krafftjm at muohio.edu> schrieb:
> > > I have been asked to recommend "an academic
> quality, article length work 
> >on
> > > Pynchon and his desire for anonymity, as an
> aspect of celebrity," and 
> >that
> > > turns out to be a taller order than I had
> suspected. Any suggestions?
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
>
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