Pynchon's work influences Jonathan Franzen---V. esp. maybe here

[Robert Mahnke]

"relied" on the New York Times

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was underwhelmed by The Corrections.  I thought the most effective
> parts of the novel were about the deterioration of the parents, a
> topic Franzen wrote about (even better) as memoir in The New Yorker in
> late August or early September of 2001.  I didn't think there was much
> that was interesting about his efforts to depict a broader society,
> and it all struck me as the sort of view of the world that one would
> get if one walled oneself off from the world and relief on the New
> York Times, though it fairness I can't now remember why.
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:07 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> I started, and quickly discarded Franzen's first novel, The Twenty-seventh City.  There's a gratuitous mention of Pynchon somewhere early on, and I couldn't help thinking he was an untalented Pynchon wannabe.  Haven't read anything of his since.  Is (are?) The Corrections really worth reading?
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
>>>Sent: Sep 7, 2010 3:10 AM
>>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>Subject: RE: Pynchon's work influences Jonathan Franzen---V. esp. maybe here
>>>
>>>
>> >From page 67 of Franzen's Freedom:
>>>
>>>"Richard [the cool guy] was wearing a black T-shirt and reading a paperback novel with a big V on the cover."
>>
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