legendary editor Rbt Gottlieb, then at S &S, on why Confederacy of Dunces was not like V...

[Mark Kohut]

>"Gottlieb wrote to Toole that he thought Confederacy was funnier than
>anything else around. The problem was, he said, that unlike Catch-22,
>or Thomas Pynchon’s V , it wasn’t really about anything."...........