First ATD hatchet job

[Gordon, Alex]

I read George Perec's 'Life - A User's Manual' recently (and greatly
enjoyed it), and that certainly contains an almost overwhelming amount
of lists, both of 'things' and of stories... Seemed to me that the lists
were sort of the syntax of the novel itself, in the sense that the
arrangement and ordering of all of 'em were what gave the novel meaning.


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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Ya Sam
Sent: 15 November 2006 16:26
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: First ATD hatchet job

Lists have no syntax: agreed.

Pynchon as a list-maker, well that's a lame and not very fair
categorisation on his part. Pynchon does have lists but not as
consistently and as extensively as, let's say, in Rabelais' case, or, to
give a more modern example, in Peter Greenaway's case (both in cinema
and in prose).



>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: First ATD hatchet job
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:58:42 -0600
>
>You didn't read the review, at least not very closely.  He never said 
>Pynchon had bad syntax.  He said Pynchon is a list-maker.  He said list

>don't have any syntax.  He badly extended this observation to say that 
>Pynchon's multiple stories are a sort of list also, and that they 
>therefore have no syntax (relation to each other - and to us).
>
>On 11/15/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Pynchon having bad syntax??? The reviewer must be joking. If there is 
>>a master of the sentence in contemporary English language literature 
>>it's TRP.

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