castrated P

[terrance fitzgerald]

GR was a roaring success in the 70s and even in the 80s. People talked about P getting a nobel prize. In the 70s and 80s the nobel for literature was given to males. Only males. And some manly men too. Roth and Pynchon missed the high water mark for Hemingway-like male writers.  In the 90s, a record 4 females were awarded the nobel in literature. So what? Well, P is essentially a man's author and his modern view of females is deeply embedded in his fiction. It looks like he's lost his balls. Roth Marquez, Grass, by contrast, are still writing like men with super balls, P has been castrated.  

 		
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