Nobel favourite

[Cyrus]

I guess when they say "mainstream" they really mean "anglo-saxon". And 
"experimental" must mean "with a non-anglo-saxon point of view". 
Sometimes I get the feeling it's all politics.

And Pynchon hasn't produced anything recently. Isn't that a criterion?

Cyrus

John Carvill wrote:

>Yeah, like JM Coetzee is really experimental.  
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>Pynchon mainstream? Jeez Louise!
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>My money's on either Roth or (they keep sayin') Bob Dylan.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
>Behalf Of Paul Taylor
>Sent: 07 October 2005 09:52
>To: jbor at bigpond.com
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Nobel favourite
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>from http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=29389:
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><<Thente [Swedish lit. crit.] said he would like to see "the great
>American postmodernist authors Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon" take
>home the prestigious award, but Weyler [Swed. chief. ed.] said he
>didn't think they had a chance.
>"They are great epic writers, but they are considered very mainstream.
>They're not very experimental, pushing the boundaries of literature,"
>he said. >>
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>Pynchon in the 'mainstream'.  Ouch.
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>--PT
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