Pynchon at Cornell--Abrams

[rich]

hey all--from the NYT Book Review y'day:


After the war, when universities began hiring again, Abrams landed a
position at Cornell, where over the years his students included the novelist
Thomas Pynchon and the literary scholar Harold Bloom. Abrams recalled that
Pynchon had written a "brilliant" essay on Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas" and
Voltaire's "Candide." "I was sure it was plagiarized. It was so
sophisticated, so polished," he said. But when he spoke with Pynchon, it
quickly became clear he was indeed the author. "I've always kicked myself
for not keeping a copy of that paper."



rich
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