IV debate on Swiss TV

[Otto]

I've never shared miss Radisch's taste...



2012/12/16 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1mSMq2s2cI
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> The reading from and the debate on Inherent Vice (dt. Natürliche Mängel) can
> be found between 32.39 and 51.20.
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> 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.
>