Fw: Re: tMoP, Chap 11..The Walk

[Mark Kohut]

I might argue this morning that Coetzee answers my question with the richly
resonant 'cracked bell' image...........




--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: tMoP, Chap 11..The Walk
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>, "Richard Ryan" <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 8:14 AM
> Yeah...fellow (to Doestoevky) artist Coetzee has fully felt
> and put down how a writer turns his life into his work. 
> 
> Q: Does Coetzee therefore see such work as The Demons to be
> so autobiographically-based that it does NOT illuminate
> reality as Dostoevsky so deeply believed? Dostoevsky
> believed he had captured THE essential truth
> of Nechaev and The People's Vengeance....
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 11/1/08, Richard Ryan
> <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: tMoP, Chap 11..The Walk
> > To: "pynchon -l"
> <pynchon-l at waste.org>, markekohut at yahoo.com
> > Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 9:39 PM
> > That allusion (to the "The Eternal Husband")
> leaps
> > out off the page.  No doubt a Dostoevsky scholar would
> find
> > similar winks and allusions to the author's
> > "future" work scattered throughout the text.
>  
> > 
> > Ultimately I'll want to argue this novel is
> centrally
> > about art as a way of filtering some of the most
> painful
> > aspects of life - and a passing allusion to an
> unwritten
> > work such as the reference you flag, Mark, suggests
> that the
> > D. of TMoP is turning his life into art relentlessly,
> often
> > unconsciously.
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Sat, 11/1/08, Mark Kohut
> > <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > p 139..."eternal lodger"....surely an
> > allusion to
> > > Dostoevsky's novella,
> > > The Eternal Husband:
> > >
> >
> http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553214444...unwritten
> > > yet in Dosteovsky's real life, therefore 
> > > another foreshadowed work in TMoP, like The
> Demons.