Bowles on Pynchon

[rich]

pages from cold point--won't forget that one



On 5/14/09, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with Nabokov. I wasn't crazy about The Sheltering Sky, myself.  His
> shorter works, in particular his collections of stories set in and around
> Morocco, are equine of a considerably other stature.
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> Henry Musikar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Kohut
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> I know that Nabokov hated The Sheltering Sky.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Henry Musikar
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> I love Bowles terse writing style, particularly his short stories.
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> http://alltimeisunredeemable.blogspot.com/2009/05/world-outside.html
> "We also talked about a number of other writers. Bowles confessed to loving
> Lolita, and although he he was less fond of Pale Fire and Nabokov's other
> works, he did allow that Nabokov's influence on younger writers was
> 'positive.' At some point we resumed a discussion of Thomas Pynchon begun
> two years earlier, and again, Bowles sharply criticized Pynchon's novels,
> characterizing them as 'fumereuse'-- a French word implying a trailing off
> in all directions, like smoke. Commenting on Pynchon's famous anonymity, he
> said, laughing, 'I wonder what's wrong with him?'"
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> I haven't had the opportunity to explore the site, but I wonder what Bowles
> thought of Burroughs.
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> Henry Mu
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