Pynchon praise by Kaube

[Thomas Eckhardt]

One can certainly learn a lot from Eco (who is, like the other writers 
mentioned by Kaube, a 'poeta doctus' in the contemporary meaning of the 
term), but as a writer of fiction he plays some leagues below Pynchon.

Thomas


Am 08.10.2011 20:41, schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:
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> Today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has a literature supplement
> and therein (p. L 2) Jürgen Kaube reviews Umberto Eco's new novel (Der
> Friedhof in Prag). In order to represent Eco's artistic authority,
> Kaube, certainly one of the more interesting German journalists, puts
> him in a group with three other writers: Claude Simon, Hans Magnus
> Enzensberger and --- Thomas Pynchon. While linking Pynchon to Eco is
> common, the other two names are rarely mentioned in connection with our
> author. What Kaube ascribes to these four authors is erudition and fantasy.
> He says he's glad to live as a contemporary of them. And that he learns a
> lot. Well, so this is nothing spectacular, yet still:
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> "Eco ist, wie Enzensberger, Claude Simon oder Thomas Pynchon --- ja, ja,
> Äpfel und Birnen, aber genau die muss man vergleichen! --- , eine
> derjenigen Erscheinungen an Gelehrsamkeit und Phantasie, von denen man
> sich freut, ihr Zeitgenosse zu sein, von denen man ständig etwas lernt."
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> Kaube insists that it is necessary to compare apples to pears.
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