Petillon

[pynchonoid]

Theory and criticism in French reads like poetry
compared to the usual English fare, although
jargon-ridden prose everywhere can get ugly.  I
haven't read Petillon in French, but this tempts me;
the PN article is worth reading.

--- Michel Ryckx <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> One could say he belongs to the po-mo school. For
> me, he is in the first 
> place a VERY French scholar, writing in a rather
> associative way, very 
> charming. Check out PN for one of his articles:
> /Petillon, Pierre-Yves///, "*Thomas Pynchon and
> Aleatory Space *", in: 
> /Pynchon Notes/, Fall, # 15, 1984
> 
> Comment in French (tr.: the most beautiful texts
> written on P, american 
> onces included)
> Pierre-Yves Pétillon, */Histoire de la littérature
> nord-américaine/* 
> (Fayard, 2003)
> Merveilleux Pétillon ! Tous les textes qu’il a
> consacrés à Pynchon sont 
> les plus beaux écrits sur le romancier, études
> américaines comprises.
> 
> Critique (FR) is rather very respected.


Uh, yeah, what he said. 

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