Fwd: Pynchon's fat novel repudiated?

[umberto rossi]

In data 9 May 2004, verso le 12:30, Dave Monroe si trovò a scrivere 
su RE: Fwd: Pynchon's  fat novel repudiated?:

> Pynchon 'n' Dante,
> Vineland 'n' The Divine Comedy, compare 'n' contrast,
> whatever.  

Can I meditate a bit? Vineland has the part about the Thanatoids 
which has some connection with the Inferno, and Brock Vond's final 
descent has a somewhat Dantean taste. But it is easier to compare 
Pynchon's works with Michele Mari's last effort, Tutto il ferro della 
Tour Eiffel. I think Mari doesn't even know that Pynchon exists 
(maybe I'm exaggerating, but he's an expert of 18th-century Italian 
literature, so we talk about a totally different league), but he got 
very close to Gravity and V. I'll expand this.

umberto rossi
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