tMoP, Chap 11..The Walk

[Mark Kohut]

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.