Can we find idealism in Pynchon's oevre?

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, we can, Yes, Yes...and we have been.
   
  Shambala.
   
  A world like (parts of) the Past......trees, stones, wind, an Earth almost alive, an inner earth [ M & D ] full of wonders......some tenderness, some love, some grace.....

Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
  O yes, Samuel Beckett.......OPTIMIST!

Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:   
But Magnus Eriksson, literary critic for Svenska Dagbladet, strongly 
disagrees: "The academy is totally apolitical. Their decisions are 
well-founded and they consider literary merit only. If politics influenced 
them, V.S. Naipul would never have won." He explains some of the 
non-laureates: "Joseph Conrad was never Nobelized because the academy was 
scrupulously following the instructions in Nobel’s will, that the 
recipient’s work should have an idealistic direction.” Conrad, like Thomas 
Hardy, was too dark, too pessimistic.

http://www.thelocal.se/8677/

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