3 hours with Bloom

[April Phillips]

Mea Culpa.  I didn't read the entire post and didn't see the all-important 
"American" as criterion.  But I definitely agree with you on John Updike as 
superior to McCarthy.  Suttree was a masterpiece, but Updike's overall body 
of work is more impressive.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "paolo beneforti" <pbeneforti at inwind.it>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: 3 hours with Bloom


> Umberto Eco is italian, not american.
> I would replace McCarthy with DFWallace; or, if Wallace is too much young, 
> with John Updike.
>
> April Phillips ha scritto:
>>  I wouldn't replace Roth, but I'd definitely add Umberto Eco.  Both
>>  The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum combine phenomenal plots
>>  with intense theoretical ideas.
>
>