Can Pynchon write (yet)?

[Dave Monroe]

"I began to write fiction on the assumption that the
true enemies of the novel were plot, character,
setting and theme, and having once abandoned these
familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of
vision or structure was really all that remained."
--John Hawkes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hawkes

"Fifty years of disease, the death notice signed many
times over by the serious essayists, yet nothing has
managed to knock it ['character'] off the pedestal on
which the 19th century had placed it. It is a mummy
now, but one still enthroned with the same phony
majesty, among the values revered by traditional
criticism." --Alain Robbe-Grillet

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html

And for the loyal opposition ...

"There is no reason why a novelist should not drop
'character' if the strategy stimulates him. But it is
nonsense to do it on the theoretical ground that the
period which marked the apogee of the individual, and
so on, has ended. We must not make bosses of our
intellectuals. And we do them no good by letting them
run the arts. Should they, when they read novels, find
nothing in them but the endorsement of their own
opinions? Are we here on earth to play such games?"
--Saul Bellow

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html

--- kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> "Flat" implies not behaving like a real person....


 
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