IVIV Hope Harlingen: (spoilers)

[rich]

i could see someone thinking that about Pynchon but I need to read
AtD/M&D again--think those two make up for the VL/IV clunkers in the
post-GR period  ;) (imho)
I do believe that Pynchon drove out some of his demons w/ writing GR.
essays would be cool but yeah, one more long-ish book would be great

rich

On 9/11/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't write any creativity obits for Pynchon over IV.  I think it's
> just a pent-up bit of fun story-telling he needed to get down on paper.  I'm
> still hoping for a book of essays and, who knows, another novel.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>
>>
>>this is about the Belgian artist James Ensor but it sorta parallels
>>Pynchon's career in a way
>>
>>Van Gogh and Gauguin died at relatively young ages, and while Munch
>>and Ensor both lived to be old men, they died young in a certain sense
>>also. They were clearly depleted by the work they expended in their
>>prime. Ensor's most innovative pictures were made by the time he was
>>thirty. By some point in the 1890s, and certainly by the early 1900s,
>>he began to be less and less bombarded by his inner demons, and his
>>later pictures, represented by a single room at the exhibition, became
>>drier in texture and more obvious in their satire. In his last
>>decades, he was given one honor after another (by many of the very
>>institutions he had ridiculed as a young man). But in his studio—like
>>Munch in his own later decades—he did little more than revisit, with
>>increasingly less force, themes that dated to the 1880s and 1890s.
>>
>>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23036
>>
>>rich
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