Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre

Natália Maranca nmaranca at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 20:25:31 CDT 2008


M&D could be about World History, but even then I don't find it appropriate
to put it next to V., GR and AtD. It's too different in style.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey, one man's categorizing is another man's disorder.
> I guess so.
>
> I guess I just see the book as all-at-the-same time by the guys
> discovering America's division.
>
>
> --- On Thu, 10/2/08, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre
> > To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> > Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 3:23 PM
> > Mason & Dixon involve two citizens of Great Britain and
> > is partially set in
> > South Africa and the Pacific. Wouldn't that also be
> > World History?
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Mark Kohut
> > <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The World History novels. A trilogy.
> > > "V."
> > > "Gravity's Rainbow"
> > > "Against the Day"
> > >
> > > The contemorary (or recent past) American novels
> > >
> > > --  "C of Lot 49"
> > > ----"Vineland"
> > > ----new one
> > >
> > > The historical American novel
> > > ---Mason & Dixon
> > >
> > > If we believe, as I do from external info, that TRP
> > was working on ATD
> > > for a long time---since finishing GR, maybe---then he
> > has alternated,
> > > roughly, the World Historical novels with the American
> > novels.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
>
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