John Gardner

[Ben De Bruyn]

So we should prefer social realism to Pynchon?
 
jolly <jollyrogerx99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
"It did not take long for complaints to set in, often calling down -- as 
John Gardner does in On Moral Fiction (1978) -- a plague on the houses of 
both modernism and postmodernism. Gardner laments what he calls, in a 
typically pungent phrase, the smart-mouth cynicism of the new writing"
 
Mr. Gardner had a point.  While a Pynchon  presents  a sort of cyber-Delacroix spectacle, a writer such as Raymond Carver (Gardner's student), perhaps lacking some of TP's brilliance and cognitive acrobatics ( I imagine Ray never swooned over integrals) , does tend to address and acknowledge the  tragedies of the everyday in a more specific fashion....Carver was not exactly a social realist (was he?) but there is an authenticity in that sort of writing sometimes missing in the cartoon apocalypse of TP's writings.......but of course I have not the pedigree to make such assertions as the esteemed mr. cowart......

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