Thor Kunkel (translation)

[Otto]

HISTORY, PORN, AND ADVERTISING

3am Interview

TK: I read an awful lot of HP Lovecraft, JG Ballard, Harlan Ellison
and obscure French writers from the fin de siecle: Alfred Jarry, Joris
K. Huysmans, Theophile Gautier. I totally ignored contemporary German
writers like Grass and Boell. I found their work utterly boring. Later
I discoverd Beckett and Joyce and that, in a second hand bookshop in
the Tenderloin area of San Francisco, Thomas Pynchon's V. Instead of
studying at the SFAI, I spent an entire week in bed reading and
re-reading Pynchon's novel.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2005/jan/interview_thor_kunkel.html

"Endstufe" is actually available at amazon.de for 4,90 euros.

2007/10/19, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>:
> Well, I like it (so far), but of course it's more the topic than the
> style that makes Kunkel a Pynchon-epigone.
>
> 2007/10/18, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> > thx, Otto
> >
> > i have to say Kunkel's style (of course translation may explain it) is
> > pretty bland and not very engaging
> >
> > rich
> >
> > On 10/18/07, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > http://www.thorkunkel.com/wp-content/sample-final-level.pdf
> > >
> > > 2006/11/15, V A <vitalbits2 at gmail.com>:
> > > > Hi
> > > > Has anyone any news of the translation of Endstufe in english or in French,
> > > > Thor Kunkel's novel on the Nazis. At the time of its publication, if memory
> > > > serves me right, the German critics were ridiciuling him for thinking he was
> > > > up on Pynhcon's street.
> > > > V
> > > >
> > >
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