Misc. speculating out the wazoo re The Recognitions & TRP

[Mark Kohut]

Just central to the time before the TIme of reading...tuning up here....

For Follow-up file: someone ask again AFTER we've read The Recognitions...



----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 4:00:16 PM
Subject: Re: Misc. speculating out the wazoo re The Recognitions & TRP

Interesting (but not surprising) that this is becoming one of the
central issues of the TR read: when and if TRP encountered TR.  I'm
guessing after V and before GR.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> See the publishing history at the Gaddis annotations site. Took nine years to
> sell out
> the first hardcover printing of '55 (in america) and there was no paperback
> until 1962 but
> 2 printings that year. Meaning some readership.
>
> IF we can presume TRP read, internalized, learned from, this work before
> composing V.
> when does anyone but me think he may have read it? Before the paperback
> publication
> It seems sure. (too late)
>
> When it was published, he left Cornell for the Navy where there was lotsa
> reading done between watches
> and work, I bet...But, would he be carrying this hardcover?  And lotsa 
classics
> and others to read.
>
> so, back to Cornell, lotsa English lit now to read and writing to write  and 
>his
> last stories seem written
> while there THEN free and Boeing. And somehow starting, conceiving, doing all
> that reading for V.? No more stories, his imagination was a lion, a huge 
>Grigori
> now.
>
> I suggest irrefutably until TRP tells me I'm wrong that this is when TRP read
> The Recognitions, felt how
> deep he might go thematically, mythologically, into the modern world in a BIG
> novel...sucked down Graves
> and other history and sportelloed his first world-historical fiction.
>
>
>
>
>



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