Pynchon's back catalogue

[Mark Kohut]

T.S. Eliot famously argued for the impersonality--the non-autobiographical use of esperience--- of Art, of his art. 

I have often wondered if this is where TRP, greatly influenced we know by much of Eliot, got the notion...but then he wouldn't easily forget that by 1984, yes?....

(Anyway, biographers and scholars have been finding the autobiography in Eliot since before his Nobel-----(one early reader of The Waste Land said:
this isn't about the modern world, this is about Eliot's marriage.)

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Pynchon's back catalogue
> To: "tore" <torerye at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 7:22 AM
> 
> Yep, great stuff Laura.
> Tore's quote from that Donadio letter reminds me of the
> Slow Learner intro (which I go back to again and again
> and...):
> Why I adopted such a strategy of transfer is no longer
> clear to me. Displacing my personal experience off into
> other 
> environments went back at least as far as "The Small Rain."
> Part of this was an unkind impatience with fiction I felt
> then 
> to be "too autobiographical." Somewhere I had come up with
> the notion that one's personal life had nothing to do with 
> fiction, when the truth, as everyone knows, is nearly the
> direct opposite. Moreover, contrary evidence was all around
> me, 
> though I chose to ignore it, for in fact the fiction both
> published and unpublished that moved and pleased me then as
> 
> now was precisely that which had been made luminous,
> undeniably authentic by having been found and taken up,
> always 
> at a cost, from deeper, more shared levels of the life we
> all really live. I hate to think that I didn't, however
> defectively, 
> understand this. Maybe the rent was just too high. In any
> case, stupid kid, I preferred fancy footwork instead. 
> 
> 
> 
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