Fwd: Pynchon's fat novel repudiated?

[umberto rossi]

In data 5 May 2004, verso le 15:59, Richard Romeo si trovò a scrivere 
su RE: Fwd: Pynchon's  fat novel repudiated?:

> Pynchon is a dinosaur in a way. And what he represents near extinction in
> the current culture. Unlike most postmodernists though he'll never be
> irrelevant or forgotten

Dante (Alighieri) was *almost* forgotten for centuries. Italian 
renaissance poets deemed his Commedia to be a brilliant work, but 
definitely too rough for their refined taste. Shakespeare was re-
written by Dryden because his stuff was deemed too coarse for the 
late 17th-century public. What about one of TRP's most important 
forefathers, that is, good ol' uncle Herman? Wasn't M-D (not to be 
confused with M&D) considered a failure by contemporary critics? 
Weren't M-D, Pierre, Benito Cereno forgotten for quite a long time? 
Didn't Billy Budd go unpublished? And then somebody had to re-
discover his oeuvre? I might imagine a period of neglect for 
Pynchon's works. Obviously I'm no prophet, but it might just happen. 
[And yes, I do think that TRP's stuff can be compared to what grandpa 
Dante, father Shakespeare and uncle Herman produced. At least, he is 
in the same league...]

umberto rossi
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