(np) John Buchan: Q becasue of Alice

[Mark Kohut]

Buchan wrote a lot about Sir Walter Scott. Great creator of Romance s....
Buchan's fictions were Romantic at base.....
 
Melville, Pynchon and others wrote, write, American Romance. 
 
Scott hasn't lasted. (Irving Howe wrote a good essay on why). He
was one of the few who praised Austen, who has. her realism is
still reality. (?)
 
So Q, if Romance does not contain its own self-criticism and/or if
Romance does not go deep---metaphysically deep; to historical 
origins deep; to deep social and historical satire---does it inevitably
end up dated via shallowness?     
 
 

From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 8:20 PM
Subject: (np) John Buchan

ok, he's in the preface to Slow Learner, and everybody's seen the 39 Steps

I was thinking of looking at some of his books.
Pynchon said some are even better than 39 Steps.
The guy was governor general of Canada!  I didn't know that.
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