Andr�s Ib��ez: el heredero espa�ol de Pynchon?

[Ya Sam]

Thanks for that summary. Maybe you could also comment on Maurice Dantec's 
'Villa Vortex'? Some reviewers have pointed out Pynchon's influence on this 
book which at least  in terms of size corresponds to the archetypal big 
novel of ideas. Generally speaking, are there any attempts in French 
literature to create a large complex erudite novel, the Great French Novel, 
so to speak? It seems to me that at the present moment minimalist approach 
prevails in contemporary French literature, although I am not much of an 
expert in this field.

Y.



>From: François Monti <francois at neovoid.org>
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Andrés Ibáñez: el heredero español de Pynchon?
>Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:28:13 +0200
>
>I am currently reading "El mundo en la era de Varick", in French 
>translation. A good 200 pages in the book (there are 700 of them), I'm 
>thinking about giving up -or not. He seems to have a good style, but I 
>can't connect wiht what he writes. So far, it's very mystic and I'm not 
>into that kind of things.  The story seems to be about a group of spanish 
>people living in New York at the end of "Varick's era". Varick is a sort of 
>creature in orbit around Earth that started communicating with humans in 
>1970. Ibañez hints very early that the events depicted in the book take 
>place at the end of Varick's "life". So far, all the characters seem to 
>have had some sort of spiritual experience. "V." is mentioned. So far, the 
>book could go in any directions: boring, interesting, or even fascinating.
>
>F
>
>Ya Sam wrote:
>
>>Although the heated discussion about the possible heirs of Pynchon has 
>>died down, I'd like to call on those who read in Spanish. A modern Spanish 
>>writer Andrés Ibáñez has been compared to Pynchon. No work of his, to my 
>>knowledge, has been translated into English. Has anybody read him, is he 
>>any good?
>>
>>Y.
>>
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