Pynchon - further reading?

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 9 09:16:44 CST 2005


Suggesting I am some kind of expert, you clearly have me confused
with another. But I will forward your Q to the P-list anonymously.

Pynchon demonstrates that poesie, and if he chose to rhyme, you'd
then recognize it as poetry too.

> Pynchon - further reading?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I got your address from the Pynchon-list and I figured you should be 
> some kind of expert. I have recently read The Crying of Lot 49, my first 
> Pynchon. I was -really- impressed and I would like more of the kind, or 
> not necessarily "the kind" but I think you should be able to give some 
> suggestions. Novels like "White Noise" by DeLillo and Pynchon's "V" or 
> "G.R." have crossed my mind. I have also yet to read "Finnegans Wake", 
> to which I am very tempted.
> 
> PS: I am also very interested in secondary literature (do you call it that in English, anyway, I mean scientific papers on the subject; Pynchon, L49, postmodern writing, poeticæ, etc.)
> 
> What do you think Pynchonian poetry would look like? (AFAIK it does not exist, in public?) Thanks in advance.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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