from The Recognitions

[Mark Kohut]

I think it is correct that Bros k. is NOT buried and alluded to.

And although I have never finished--barely started once---Buddenbrooks,
I have a hidded belief that our three brothers in ATD might be more
reflections of characters in that Mann work.

Why do I think that without having read it?, you sensible ones ask?
!) Because of OBAs Magic Mountain allusions, it seems.
2) Because I do know BBrooks is a long novel about the decline of a family
----on Pynchon's mind and part of AtD, desert-changed, imho.


----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:32:17 PM
Subject: Re: from The Recognitions



-----Original Message-----
>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>

>Reef reckless, Frank reasonable, Kit religious--Brothers K no
>doubt--Kit=Misha, Frank=Ivan, Reef=Dimitri?--not an exact
>correspondence, just a thought
>

Any time there are three brothers, a Dostoyevsky alarm goes off, but in this case, it's hard to justify.  Reef may be akin to the impulsive Dmitri; Kit is someone who desperately wants to be religious (mathematically speaking) but has some doubts, similar to Alyosha; but reasonable old Frank akin to tormented intellectual Ivan?  No way!  There's no place in D.'s universe for "reasonable."  The Lake/Deuce couple make an interesting Smerdyakov, though.

Laura


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