100 arabian nights and 1night

[Ya Sam]

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>	Barth is the classicist/formalist to Pynchon's romantic/baroque.
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Interesting point. The terms are tricky however. I would say that the 
language of the Sot-Weed Factor is baroque, of course not meaning it as a 
literary style (there is a good immitation of the baroque style in Eco's The 
Island of the Day Before) but meaning the sheer exuberance of his prose, 
which is kind of a cliche these days: 'he/she writes a baroque prose'. 
Perhaps you meant something different. Could I ask you to explain a bit this 
dichotomy? (I am dead serious, not trying to pick on you or something).

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