Pynchon-esque films

malignd at aol.com malignd at aol.com
Tue Sep 15 17:03:40 CDT 2009


<<My vote for "Most Pynchonesque" goes to "The Tin Drum," but note that 
  I saw that fine film just after my first reading of Gravity's Rainbow. 
 Still and all, they felt like blood brothers at the time.>>

This is an odd comment, given that The Tin Drum was a Gunther Grass 
novel, published in 1959.  Sort of like saying that Lolita was 
Pynchonesque, had you found it so.

I'm not so much nitpicking  as noting that many of the films mentioned 
in this string preceded Pynchon's writing and made to think, by that, 
of Borges's Kafka and His Precursors.






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