The Anti-Pynchon Author of Note?

[Henry]

Good points, Mark.  

I do wanna make the point that Roth's books, like,  for example, Fellini's
movies (a few of which have a cast of some number of dozen speaking parts) ,
tend to have very few characters that given a scene in which they figure
prominently and also stand as much as one degree of separating from the main
character.  This is part of Roth's books generally reflecting his life
rather directly, juvenilia and mid-life one-offs like the Breast and the
Great American Novel notwithstanding.


HENRY MU
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

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From: Mark Kohut 
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 7:56 AM

Newest one coming, Indignation, is set a bit before his 'personal time".
When She was Good was not his world. More than 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

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