aw. RE: Naumann in the NYT

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Richard Romeo schrieb:

> Is he being coy--surely he knows if a new Pynchon novel is in
> the offing?
> He did say Tom not Thomas

* He did, but I'm not so sure whether he really knows 
more about the publishing date or further details 
of the novel's content. At least he didn't write anything
at all about Pynchon in his articles for the "Zeit", though
there would have been more than just one opportunity to make
a reference or two. Did he ever do the Kenosha Kid? He also
never mentioned P on TV in the literature shows he was invited
to last year. (Painfully embarrassing Naumann's presentation of
"Moby Dick" at Elke Heidenreich's "Lesen!", where he had nothing 
more to offer than a lame version of the Ahab=Bush reading). If Naumann - as he once claimed - is really a "friend" of Pynchon,
I doubt that the word starts with a cap ---

KFL +

PS. My daughter Yella, who will be 8 years old next month, she's
reading the grown-up-edition of "Moby Dick" (in the new translation of Matthias Jendis) right now and is already half her
way through; having read all the books of Tove Jansson, Joanne Rowling and Cornelia Funke, she asked my wife and me about good 
grown-up books to start with and we thought The Whale would be a
good novel to take off. While neither Thomas Mann nor Pynchon nor Joyce nor Proust nor Jahnn nor McCarthy would make sense at this age, Melville somehow seems to do. Yella is thrilled by Ahab's obsession and nourishes some fondness for Queequeg and his hunting skills. At her age I just had seen the movie --     
 
PPS. Just for the record, the 12/24-citation was, with one or 
two tiny changes to cover things up a little, compiled from Moby 
Dick's twentysecond chapter and the pages 131f of Gravity's Rainbow ~    


>> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of jbor
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:57 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Naumann in the NYT
> 
> 'Europe - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do' by Mark Landler. 
> _New York Times_ (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jan 16,
> 2005. p. 4.4
> 
> Excerpt:
> 
> [...] Realism about the United States does not mean cynicism. Many Europeans
> who deplore Washington's blunt methods and go-it-alone tendencies still say
> the United States can recapture its moral leadership.
> 
> "The most burning priority is to return to the due process of law in the
> prisons the U.S. established after 9/11," said Michael Naumann, editor of
> the influential German paper _Die Zeit_. He said that only through a full
> accounting of the Iraq war, admitting what went wrong, could the United
> States play a positive role in fostering democracy in the Middle East.
> 
> For Mr. Naumann, who once worked as a book publisher in New York, America's
> most lasting contribution would be to reclaim its status as a wellspring of
> the arts. Too many Europeans, he said, view American culture as synonymous
> with raunchy television like the 'Sex and the City' series. "What I wish
> most from the United States is the next novel from Tom Pynchon," he said.
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/weekinreview/16euro.html
> 
> (Note that that last paragraph seems to have dropped off in the on-line
> edition. I blame the cleaner.)
> 
> best
> 
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