Capote attacking Pynchon

[Otto]

Who is Capote?

2006/8/22, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>:
> The usual mantra: sorry if it has been posted before.
>
> I was just browsing the Spanish internet for some noteworthy info on Pynchon
> and came across a curious review of Gravity's Rainbow SORRY! El arco iris de
> gravedad, of course, running at 1148 paginas. Anyway, the review by Rodrigo
> Fresan, also a writer, was interesting due to his reference to Truman
> Capote's negative comment on GR of which I hadn't heard before. I wonder if
> it's possible to find the original somewhere. I haven't read anything by
> Capote, but he's fallen in my eyes! Here is the comment and my clumsy
> backtranslation:
>
> 'Sí, soy una de las pocas personas en el mundo que ha leído esa cosa desde
> la primera hasta la última página; Pynchon es un escritor repugnante'
>
> 'Yes, I am one of the few people in the world who has read that thing from
> the first page to the last; Pynchon is a repugnant writer.'
>
> http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/libros/10-745-2003-09-27.html
>