castrated P

[bekah]

Thank you,  Laura.   I'm catching up here but you said it quite well. 
I'm not a fan of GR but I looove The Crying of Lot 49 with it's very, 
very entertaining and enlightening and sexy Oedipa.   DeLillo is 
supposedly a "man's" author but  I'm an enormous fan.   And Vollmann 
is in this category.

The Nobel winner for 2003,  Elfriede Jelinek, had enough sex in her 
novels to cause quite a stir.  Is she a man's author?

Bekah
who was Becky until she read Mason & Dixon and was thoroughly 
disappointed  at being unable to reread M&D with the group   - 
thanking those who did!



At 11:22 AM -0400 8/29/06, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>P is essentially a man's author?  How do you figure?  Because he 
>doesn't write Harlequin Romances?  My definition of a man's author 
>is one who uses female characters (wifey, bimbo) strictly as window 
>dressing, to let us know the macho man character isn't a closet 
>queer, or as basically male characters given female names, to show 
>that the author is politically correct (lots of sci-fi authors pull 
>this crap).  Pynchon's female characters (Owlglass, Paola, V, 
>Oedipa, Katje, Geli) are as full and real as any of his male 
>characters (Profane, Slothrop, etc.).  His not getting the Nobel 
>Prize probably has as much to do with anxiety that he'd turn it down 
>or treat it as a joke, than with his actual writing.
>
>Laura
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: terrance fitzgerald <fitzgerald_terrance at yahoo.com>
>>Sent: Aug 28, 2006 10:50 PM
>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: castrated P
>>
>>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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