Philip Roth Didn't Deserve the Booker International Prize

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon's Against the Day, at least, refutes this guy's overarching thesis...

He ignores America's Melville in his characterization of great American 
writers...

And, it just seems too, too tendentious to me...some great literature comes from 

getting one's own country in fiction perfectly......Austen, Proust, others? 
Isn't that
the question?

I could elaborate but why?



----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, May 21, 2011 2:37:01 AM
Subject: Philip Roth Didn't Deserve the Booker International Prize

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