Pynchon and James' 'The Portrait of a Lady'

[jochen stremmel]

"Hemingway famously said all modern American fiction came from
“Huckleberry Finn,” which may be true of relatively undemanding
fiction such as his" - I would recommend Moore (or Gorra?) take a look
into For Whom the Bell Tolls, a paragraph like that for example:

Robert Jordan watching Pablo and as he watched, letting his right hand
hang lower and lower, ready if it should be necessary, half hoping it
would be (feeling perhaps that were the simplest and easiest yet not
wishing to spoil what had gone so well, knowing how quickly all of a
family, all of a clan, all of a band, can turn against a stranger in a
quarrel, yet thinking what could be done with the hand were the
simplest and best and surgically the most sound now that this had
happened), saw also the wife of Pablo standing there and watched her
blush proudly and soundly and healthily as the allegiances were given.

And then I would read Hemingway's comment again, with the emphasis on American.

2012/12/1 Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>:
> "Hemingway famously said all modern American fiction came from 'Huckleberry Finn,' which may be true of relatively undemanding fiction such as his; but the more demanding work of Faulkner, Gaddis, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and others (Gorra implies) comes from 'The Portrait of a Lady.' "
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/portrait-of-a-novel-looks-at-henry-james-and-the-bridge-to-modernism/2012/11/29/0b0394fc-3277-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html
>
> or:
> http://tinyurl.com/bmjpcco
>
>
> Bekah
> Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
> William Gaddis
>