Back to Wrecking it

[Mark Kohut]

Absolutely. I am just operating on that usual literary truth
that the universal comes out of getting the particular right.
But, you are right...to talk as if he were too like Sinclair Lewis
is all wrong....

He embeds his vision in all that comparative Golden Bough, and
apt historical reach---Puritanism, etc.....

Seems in some of these particular scenes at parties, etc., he is
pinning the characters down as 'of their time' but satirizing them
timelessly. 



----- 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: Mon, May 23, 2011 10:27:53 PM
Subject: Re: Back to Wrecking it

I believe I've made something like this point before....but I don't
find that the Gaddis critique is leveled simply (or merely) at a
single decade or culture or religion or what have you....he's not
Sinclair Lewis... the sarcasm and the bitterness is much more
universal than that...

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> " a low, mean. dishonest decade"....that phrase has come into my head
> in the last day or so..............Mailer on the 50s, I think......
>
> Gaddis elaborated?
>
>
>



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