IV debate on Swiss TV

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1mSMq2s2cI

The reading from and the debate on /Inherent Vice/ (dt. /Natürliche 
Mängel/) can be found between 32.39 and 51.20.

Peter Hamm - "So much emptiness, so much language waste, so much 
existential waste" - shows himself shocked about the book's poor 
quality.  "An unbelievably beautiful LA novel" is what Barbara Villiger 
Heilig read, she calls IV "a picture of manners without manners" (ein 
Sittengemälde ohne Sitten) and even compares the book to Flaubert's 
/Sentimental Education/. What Gert Scobel considers to be underrated in 
the reviews is the genealogy of the internet which gets unfolded in IV. 
Iris Radisch, who compares it to VL and also to GR, misses the irony she 
claims to have found in all the other novels of Pynchon. She wants to 
warn people of the book's boringness and says: "People have called IV 
'Pynchon lite', actually it's 'Pynchon bad'." In the end the debate gets 
rather heated, mainly because Hamm misses political motives in IV while 
Scobel correctly insists that Vietnam and the death of counterculture 
are thematic.

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