Pynchon's fat novel repudiated?

[Dave Monroe]

Just something I'm curious about.  Who ARE the
big-name contemporary writers in, say, Italy, or
anywhwere else (or here, for that matter, I don't
really keep up)?  Who are the Americans who break
through elsewhere?  In, say, a course on American
Literature, or Modern and/or Contemporary American
Fiction, what gets taught?  In, again, Italy, or
anywhere?  And are we all reading Pynchon in English,
or has he been translated into whatever language any
of you might happen to be native speakers of?  Me, I
know virtually nothing about Italian literature
beyond, at our end, at least, Eco and Calvino. 
Earlier, Svevo.  Before that, well, The Renaissance,
so ...


--- umberto rossi <teacher at inwind.it> wrote:
> 
> 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....


	
		
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