On Roth: pynchon-l-digest V2 #6673

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Betcha not.
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i always thought Roth was born mature.

Seems to have been in control from the beginning.

The thing about his hating women is literary not personal.

Lots of men who can't stay married for very long don't hate women.

Roth is just very very good at expressing the problems that come up
between men and women in America.

P
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>
> To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:44:11 PM
> Subject: RE: pynchon-l-digest V2 #6673
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> It's my guess that Roth may be a little embarrassed by his early works,
> which were rather juvenile, as opposed to his later works, which are
> particularly mature.
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> Henry Mu
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> I read Goodbye Columbus and Portnoy's complaint years ago and it
> didn't take. it was much like trying to get involved with John
> Updike's work. Truth is that satire and surrealism pull me into books,
> the more O.T.T. the better. Joseph Heller & Kurt Vonnegut sank in
> early, Tom Robbins initially worked for me, but there was a palpable
> drop-off in inspiration as his career 'progressed.' The spleen of
> Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift always works for me.
> Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" and "Haroun and the Sea of Stories"
> engaged me at a deeper level than most modern fiction. But my interest/
> obsession in Pynchon's writing goes a step or two beyond any of my
> other literary interests. I suspect this has to do with all the
> overlap of time and place in CoL49 and Vineland with my personal
> experience. Perhaps not the most erudite or high-toned of reasons to
> be interested in an author but certainly authentic.
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> I stopped "cc"ing anybody a while ago, getting irritated with double
> postings and suspecting others felt the same.
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