Hatchet Jobs

[cfalbert]

For more detail see the NYRB piece on Peck...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17241


love,
cfa


At 12:18 PM 7/20/04, you wrote:
>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.
>
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>>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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