German reading public

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: Heikki Raudaskoski

>Yes, the German reception has been astounding.


>I just made a few queries on the Scandinavian scene and
>came up with two reviews, one from Sweden and one from
>Denmark:

>http://expressen.se/index.jsp?d=893&a=770205

>In the tabloid newspaper Expressen. Mixed.


>http://www.jp.dk/login?url=kultur/artikel:aid=4113310

>In the "cartoonish" Jyllands-Posten. Requires subscription.
>The kicker is quite negative. (You've read the whole thing,
>Tore?)

I did - it is indeed pretty negative. The reviewer (Jakob Levinsen) follows 
the basic pattern: Compares AtD unfavourably to GR and faults it for being a 
loose, baggy monster, despite some brilliant passages in the novel. Among 
other things he calls AtD "over-constructed" and "uninspired", and he makes 
a snide comment that Pynchon with AtD wanted "to show the world that he can 
still write the Great American Novel About the Birth of Twentieth Century, 
with plenty of time until next year's Nobel awards."
Levinsen gave M&D a good review when it came out, but he wrote for a 
different newspaper back then. I don't know whether his shift to the 
right-wing Jyllandsposten has affected his literary taste as well.

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