Capote attacking Pynchon

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From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> 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
> >
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