Malcolm Cowley on Faulkner re: TRP

[David Morris]

I think Alice is very insightful here.  Makes lots of sense to me.

Hemingway's hero has no help beyond himself.

Pynchon's hero is adrift from the start.  He's not a hero, because there is
no such thing.

On Monday, December 3, 2012, alice wellintown wrote:

> >>  How does one define Hemingway's kind of Grace---Courage is grace under
> fire.
>
> He has grace, but not Grace, for his thorough disallusionment is
> inexcapable.
>
> As young P, who loved this frightening modern state of modern man, and
> so skillfully and comically injected it into his first novel,
> demonstrated, the modern Hero found nothing when he pushed through the
> pasteboard---Nothing...Nothing is at the center of the mystery, at the
> center of the ALL,
>
> so, at least for Hemingway, faith, in grace, is the Faith in one's own
> skill, in one's courage, in one's toughness...
>
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