Guardian re Nazi porn

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Guardian re Nazi porn


> 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."
>

Indeed. It's only sorry that we're not told who that critic was and which
authors those "better" authors are -- who, I assume, have read less Pynchon.
This knowledge would be very useful to evaluate the source.

Otto