NP TGN

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Thanks! So the divisions have been removed in some editions?

I found TGN acute and fresh. Catalytic. Its keenness has not
worn off.

The opposite holds true for TGN's contemporary and another
Brit Lit sensation, Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, which
I forced myself to read recently. I found TAQ pretentious,
pseudo-profound, mawkishly exotic: unconsciously self-parodic.


Heikki


On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> There are chapter divisions:  Free Women 1-4, The Golden Notebook, Free Women 5, and notations before the notebook sections such as: [the red notebook continues].  I have the Harper Perennial paperback version.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> >Sent: Dec 15, 2009 7:52 AM
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: NP TGN
> >
> >
> >Hey,
> >
> >I have just a little technical question concerning
> >Lessing's The Golden Notebook. (I just reread it after
> >almost 30 years, was even more impressed than the first
> >time, and consider including it in my study plan. Thanks
> >for keeping reminding us of its quality on the list,
> >Laura and Bekah.)
> >
> >I *think* it was you Laura who said some time ago that in
> >your edition the notebooks are separated by page breaks.
> >Is that right? I have the British 1982 revised hardback
> >edition (with Lessing's Preface) which provides no such
> >separations.
> >
> >
> >Best,
> >Heikki
>