Pynchon as "recluse"

[Malignd]

<<Actually, most of the writers I would put anywhere
near Pynchon's level are almost as private as he is
--DeLillo, Philip Roth, Coetzee come to mind -- the
occasional interview or public appearance, otherwise
they're not in the public eye. >>

An occasional public appearance is what I’ve been
talking about; Pynchon has yet to make his first.  

And “almost” as private as Pynchon?  Whatever you
might mean by that, it’s quite false.

DeLillo is photographed, interviewed; he was public
and available when his plays were produced at
Steppenwolf.

Roth travelled frequently in Europe, appeared publicly
in Hungary and in Israel.  There is an entire book of
his interviews, given freely over the course of his
career.  Garcia-Marquez is active and travels, is very
politically involved, famously friendly with Castro,
works in film, works personally with young journalists
in South America.

<<Is Garcia-Marquez a TV personality, or has he
interacted with his public large through newspaper and
book-length journalism when he's not been talking to
them in novels and short stories?>>

I never suggested that Garcia-Marquez is a “TV
personality.”

<<How many TV interviews has Philip Roth done in
recent months to talk about 9-11 and Iraq?>>

Where did I speak about frequent interviews about
9-11?

There’s this, however, something a bit more
substantial than vague allusions that may or may not
be present in an intro to a reissue of 1984:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F10%2F05%2Fwlindh205.xml

<< which other writers of fine literary fiction on par
with Pynchon's these days have flung themselves fully
into the celebrity business?>>

Nothing in what I’ve written suggests flinging oneself
into the "celebrity business."  Do you think these
absurd exaggerations go unnoticed?




	
		
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