Newsday review of AtD

[pynchonoid]

I can't imagine having any kind of human relationship
with the SS officer protagonist of Les Bienveillantes,
although he does reveal himself, in a way that strikes
me as somewhat pynchonoid, to be all too human, but
I'm fully engaged in reading his story in this novel.
So, I'm with Rich on this one.  Also, I don't think
it's the case that Pynchon's characters are
confections without emotional depth or resonance, my
experience is that all of his characters, except
perhaps the most minor, have some sort of emotional
hook that gets me to thinking about them in human
terms, even if they are humans who, in "real life"
would probably appear monstrous to me - Blicero, for
example. 

--- rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> the problem with emotional connection is that you
> only read about folks you
> can relate to which seems pretty stringent.
> 
> i'd like vivid works of imagination any day over the
> dry laments of mr and
> mrs marriage[...]

>http://pynchonoid.org
>>"everything connects"


 
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