Pynchon/Roth/Bellow/Updike on the 1960's

[Robin Landseadel]

	. . . As it happened, I’d been reading McEwan that morning on
	the late John Updike in The New York Review of Books: the
	profiled as profiler. He quotes Updike describing the facts of life
	as “unbearably heavy, weighted as they are with our personal
	death. Writing, in making the world light — in codifying,
	distorting, prettifying, verbalizing it — approaches blasphemy.”

	But what beautiful, what necessary, blasphemy!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/opinion/26cohen.html

On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:25 AM, David Morris wrote:

> http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/02/20/haruki_murakami/index.html?source=newsletter
>
> The novelist in wartime
>
> In this powerful speech, the great author explains his controversial
> decision to accept a literary prize in Israel and why we need to fight
> the System. . .
>
> . . . My answer would be this: Namely, that by telling skillful lies  
> --
> which is to say, by making up fictions that appear to be true -- the
> novelist can bring a truth out to a new location and shine a new light
> on it.
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