Editing Pynchon?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 ppetto at ppetto.com wrote:
> I believe that Pynchon values a good editor, and has used one (or more)
> on all his books. John Krafft & Luc Herman have written two great pieces
> exploring this in the case of V.
>
> Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon’s V. at the Harry Ransom
> Center in Austin in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 49,
> No. 1, Spring 2007, compares V.'s corrected typescript with the
> published novel. I recommend everyone read this.
>
> From the Ground Up: The Evolution of the South-West Africa Chapter in
> Pynchon’s V. in Contemporary Literature XLVII, 2 , takes one section
> and goes into greater detail. Also a wonderful piece.

Ditto! Would someone like to have a copy of the former essay by the
transatlantic maestros, just tell me and I'll send it as pdf. (Seems
that I've - at least temporarily - lost the latter file.)


Heikki