Hatchet Jobs

[Joel Katz]

of course you weiners fell for the bait.  peck takes too many homosexual 
party drugs for my liking, but he's right about pyncyhon, if for the wrong 
reasons.  it's not that the characters aren't memorable--it's that they're 
irrelevant in le larger scheme.  who reads pynchon for the characters, 
anyway?  i know i didn't.  i mean, they're an amusing byproduct of the 
narrato-cognitive process and all that, but i still have no idea what 
slothrop actually looks like, and i would hesitate to call any character 
motivation in the oeuvre human, precisely.





>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Hatchet Jobs
>Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:18:17 +0200
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:03 PM
>Subject: Hatchet Jobs
>
>
> > The New York Times
> > July 18, 2004
> > 'Hatchet Jobs': Smash-Mouth Criticism
> > By JOHN LEONARD
> >
> > HATCHET JOBS
> > Writings on Contemporary Fiction.
> > By Dale Peck.
> > 228 pp. The New Press.
> >
> > Thomas Pynchon
> > in ''a 30-year writing career hasn't produced a single
> > memorable or even recognizably human character.''
> >
>
>I don't think that 228 pp. are enough to analyze this huge number of
>characters, and I have strong doubts that Peck delivers any proper
>analysis of one character at all.
>
>Otto
>

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