Current Reading

[ugo quiller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MalignD at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: Current Reading

> Leverkuhn (is that the
>composer's name?) is based mainly on Schoenberg and the musical aspect of the
>novel--the understanding of serial music, etc. is very well rendered.   And
>the retelling of the Faust myth via the composer's having syphillis and going
>mad--thus hallucinating the pact with the devil--was an inspired idea.

(to be accurate: Leverkuhn's character is rather based on Nietzsche, so his
syphilis and insanity. Schoenberg's contribution just involved his serial music
theory)

U_q