The Anti-Pynchon Author of Note?

[Mark Kohut]

I'd love some p-list reflections on ways these two are alike.
 
1)comic outrage.
2)Satire: an idealism so deep, the world is almost always failing.
3)Roth's famous remark that American reality was so surreal that the writer was hard-pressed to top it in fiction...And Pynchon's over-the-top ness............
4)Justice?
5) *America's Puritanism and its continuing consequences...
6) both being called post-modernitists--when their new forms might have no relation to that concept as defined by academics.?? (itchin' for an argument here)
7) Roth, much more mainstream and read, is more pessimistic than Pynchon who has been missaid to be "nihilistic"---[before M & D and Against the Day]....(whose vision might
be less 'hopeful' than TRPs)
 
MK

--- On Sun, 6/22/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: The Anti-Pynchon Author of Note?
To: "Henry" <scuffling at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008, 7:55 AM







Newest one coming, Indignation, is set a bit before his 'personal time".
When She was Good was not his world. More thatn three people. As is Letting Go, even Goodby Columbus, American Pastoral and others....
The Breast is like the giant adenoid, only different..
The Great American Novel is full of allusions.

--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
Subject: The Anti-Pynchon Author of Note?
To: "'Pynchon Liste'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 10:07 AM

Philip Roth?  Constantly interviewed author of books concerned with up to no
more than three individuals, but ultimately always just one; an author whose
writings are never placed in times that are before his own personal time or
in alien geographies (never encyclopedic, and no encyclopedia required).
A-and his stories include elements of his life that he denies are
auto-biographical.  

HENRY MU
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu



      
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