Pynchon's fat novel repudiated?

[umberto rossi]

In data 8 May 2004, verso le 18:25, Bekah si trovò a scrivere su Re: 
Pynchon's  fat novel repudiated?:

> And on the East side of the pond, Eco's books are not slender volumes
> and Haldor Laxness' Independent People felled a significant number of
> trees. 

Hah! Eco writes big fat books because he shamelessly imitates 
Pynchon. Fact is that here there are few passionate Pynchon readers, 
so people think that what Eco has been doing in terms of fiction is 
something original. Which isn't. We have better writers, luckily, but 
here the publishing industry insists on slender novels, not heavy 
bricks--though US bricks have been regualrly translated. Not that 
their sales are huge. There was a lot of *talk* about Underworld, but 
I wonder just how many actually read the book.

umberto rossi
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