what to read next that isn't pynchon

[malignd at aol.com]

It's because of the way people read, and the way they think they should think about literature, in part.  A great and very funny writer like Berger, who I think couldn't write a book that wouldn't be fun and provoking to read, doesn't traffic in big ideas or social commentary, except from so far in left field that people miss it.  Plus his books are, usually, small and entertaining, as though that were a fault (see Muriel Spark).  But sentence by sentence he's wonderful--nasty, smart, funny, and masterful.  And the two Little Big Man books are truly worthy of anyone's consideration as major books, and Arthur Rex, his telling of the Arthur legends, is the one I would recommend to anyone who asked.  But I would argue as vehemently for all the rest.  He's a wonderful, maybe great, writer, living too far under the radar.



In short, he falls between the cracks.  But a great career with nary a bad novel.


Why you think Berger does not seem to have the readership, cult or
larger that some of the others of his time do?...TRP, of course, Gaddis, 
Gass, Barth?






 




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