does AtD rock?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Dostoevsky:

Crime and Punishment = V
Thr Brothers Karamazov = GR

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>Dear P-listers,
>   
>  I want to put AtD vs. GR (and other Pynchon works) into a different comparative framework---
>  for fun and for real fun attempt at a placement insight.
>   
>  All lines singled up?
>   
>  In my unpublished response to Wood, I said asking for the whale in AtD was a mistake---that the war in GR makes Moby Dick the right comparison. I said, look to The Confidence Man of Melville's as a possible analogy.
>   
>  So, what other writers' works can we match up TRP's/...at least GR and AtD.
>   
>  Anna K., with an obseesed adulteress in tragic love is Tolstoy's GR. His sprawling
>  War & Peace is his AtD.
>   
>  We have already found Proust's one lifelong book to match up with AtD...he had no
>  whale.....(unless it is Love).
>   
>  Twain...Huck Finn = GR.......all the rest equals AtD?
>   
>  Help me out?
>   
>  MK
>
>Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>  It ain't no Gravity's Rainbow, but what is? It's like complaining
>that Jesus ain't no God (if you're into that sort of thing ...).
>Having left it lying (usage?) fallow for some time (I think I had to
>gt past the first anniversary of the end of my life in order to pick
>it up again), I'm more than occasionally having to look up just who
>some of these people are and what they're doing there, but I'm glad to
>be back at it. I will say, though, that I think the last three novels
>differ most from the first three in not being nearly so enigmatic, or
>so compelling so, at any rate (the ultimate Pynchonian attraction,
>methinks). This may not be entirely the author's fault ...
>
>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54695
>
>
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