Guardian re Nazi porn

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:27, pynchonoid wrote:
> Porn und Drang 
> 
> The latest novel of Germany's hot young writer Thor
> Kunkel exposes the Nazis' previously unknown trade in
> pornographic films. Sounds like a guaranteed
> bestseller. So why has the book's publisher cancelled
> it and kicked up a literary storm? Luke Harding
> investigates 
> 
> Thursday February 12, 2004
> The Guardian 
> 
> ...read it all:
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1146258,00.html>
> 

I enjoyed this paragraph:

Other literary editors, however, have passed less flattering judgment.
"He's read too much Thomas Pynchon and has overestimated his artistic
possibilities," one grumbled. He added: "There are several other German
writers from his generation who are a lot better. Kunkel is an author
who has a great desire to provoke."