1Q84

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/18/2012 9:53 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> The alliteration and style sound like you, Alice, is it?  Your secret 
> is safe with me..

Toushay.

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> *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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