Headbanger's Ball: Thomas Pynchon & Primo Levi

[Dave Monroe]

If one were to create a dialectic simply by banging two writers' heads
together, its success would hinge on those writers being dissimilar
enough to create a fruitfully unlikely synthesis. I think that in
Thomas Pynchon and Primo Levi, we have two such writers. No one, to my
knowledge, has compared them before, and for good reason: they are
complete opposites....

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