IV debate on Swiss TV

[Matthew Cissell]

Great, thanks a lot. I-ll check it out.

ciao
mc


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 From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 12:25 PM
Subject: IV debate on Swiss TV
 


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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