1Q84

[Mark Kohut]

The alliteration and style sound like you, Alice, is it?  Your secret is safe with me..
 
 
From: Technopaegnion Tapinosis <technopaegniontapinosis at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: 1Q84


Have you read his earlier novels?
>They're all clunkers. 

His works, I understand, have received great acclaim. I never expected that they would read like either a poor translation or a budding novelist in need of a teacher and editor. Now that I think about it, the Tengo narrative can be read as...well...it does build a triangle of sorts around exactly this kind of relationship. But the Green Beans narrative is quite awkward; the characters are described as if the author needs to push certain facts about them out at us so that we don't miss them. At the same time, I never expected that Green Beans would kill anyone. was I missing something about her? Did any of the seemingly forced characterizations matter? For example, we are told things about her abilities to remember, to connect, but then we can't quite make out, since she can't either, why she recalls certain things or makes certain connections. The work is, like the high school girl's story, full of promise, dense with story-teller's magic, but it is far
 from a work that one expects from a novelist who has been sold to us as a genius novelist. Or is it the translation? 
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