Pynchon's fat novel repudiated?

[umberto rossi]

In data 5 May 2004, verso le 9:02, Malignd si trovò a scrivere su Re: 
Pynchon's  fat novel repudiated?:

> This also ignores The Corrections in 2002 which sold
> well and is, if not as long as the others, still
> nearly 600 pages.
> 

Richard Powers' The Time of Our Singing is even longer than that. 
Though I liked it, I heard it wasn't that successful in the States. 
And Lethem's last effort, The Fortress of Solitude, though shorter 
than the books discussed, is much longer than his previous novels, 
and he told me it was such an endeavour he won't probably write 
anything that long again. Was it successful on the western side of 
the Pond?

And don't you think that long novels, what we call mattoni in Italy 
(which means "bricks") are maybe not something novelist write because 
they just feel like doing that, but are the product of editorial 
pressure to put on the shelves the Big American Novel (as if there 
were not enough of them already)? 

umberto rossi
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