alternatives

[umberto rossi]

I'd like to show you a list of possible alternatives to reading again 
one of P.'s novels (which does not mean we shouldn't do that any 
more, but simply let the oeuvre cool down for some months, maybe...).

1. Group-reading of John Hawkes' The Cannibal. This novel is 
considered one of P.'s major sources of inspiration. Somebody dares 
say that literary postmodernism begins with Hawkes. It deals with 
post-W.W.2 Germany, and it features a Zone of sorts. 

2. J. Heller's Catch-22. Something good for the summer. The first 
postmodernist best-seller, another book P. has read and pondered. 
Lots of links to GR.

3. Gaddis' The Recognitions. I haven't read it, but some Italian 
Pynchonites say that Gaddis is P.'s master. Is that true? We might 
find by ourselves. (One of the hypothesis about P.'s identity was 
that he's Gaddis in disguise.)

4. PK Dick's Time Out of Joint. The novel the 1st part of GR is based 
upon. Something good in hot weather.

umberto rossi
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