Nobel Consideration (was Re: Ideal and idealistic)

[Ya Sam]

They are great epic writers, but they are considered
very mainstream. They're not very experimental,
pushing the boundaries of literature," he said.

Pynchon is "mainstream"!  And VS Naipaul is off-the-wall, avant-guarde, 
experimental trailblazer...


>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>To: MalignD at aol.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Nobel Consideration (was Re: Ideal and idealistic)
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
>
>American writers whose names have surfaced from time
>to time are Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas Pynchon.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/11/home/28957.html
>
>Americans John Updike, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth,
>and Joyce Carol Oates as well as Mario Vargas Llosa of
>Peru, Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, Guenter Grass of
>Germany and Belgian Hugo Claus, have all been
>mentioned as possible winners.
>
>http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9909/29/nobel.prize/index.html
>
>Dutch-language authors Cees Nooteboom and Hugo Claus
>have long been mentioned as possible laureates, as has
>Peruvian writer Mario Varga Llosa.
>
>But Weyler suggested they had probably been taken off
>the short list.
>
>"Their names have been mentioned for so long and
>they've never won, so the Academy has probably been
>unable to reach unanimity and dropped their names," he
>said.
>
>Thente said he would like to see "the great American
>postmodernist authors Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon"
>take home the prestigious award, but Weyler 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.
>
>http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=29389
>
>
>
>
>
>--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>
> > I honestly doubt he's on their radar.  I'd find it a
> > pleasant surprise to be wrong.
> >
> > In English-writing North America, I'd place him (in
> > their eyes) as behind Updike and Alice Munro,
> > certainly behind Roth.
>
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