Unfulfilled predictions, he-he-he

[jd]

Time is the best judge for literary critics anyways.  For "regular"
readers I'd say it's a bit of a confirmation (or rejection) of their
personal feelings.  Critics gave The Recognitions a pretty sound
thumping when it first came out but regardless it was those every day
readers who were blown away by it that finally made the critics
re-consider, that maybe that "difficult" text (and one can say this
about GR, too, I suppose) is really worth all that "work" and that
maybe they should read the book instead of studying the word
construction and lambasting it because it doesn't fit their idea of
the norm of a "great book".

On 8/18/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> It's not an article but a book. Some 5 years ago I stumbled upon it in a
> library and photocopied a part of it, without even knowing that it had
> several pages devoted to TRP (several pages!!! as if to stress the
> insignificance and transitory quality of his works). It's interesting to
> look at the criticism of the period (1970s) from contemporary perspective
> and realise once again that time is the best judge of  literary merit.
>
> >From: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> >To: takoitov at hotmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: RE: Unfulfilled predictions, he-he-he
> >Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:35:30 +0000
> >
> >I think the technical term for this is 'shite-talk'.
> >
> >The 'prose text'? Fuck off'!
> >
> >I take it the full prose text of this article isn't available online?
> >
> >>
> >>'Yet the prose text of Gravity's Rainbow seems to me-- to put the case
> >>against it all too bluntly--one which lacks a serious fiction's essential
> >>fidelity to a reciprocated human norm. [...]
> >
> >
>
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