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[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Now, of course Bohrer is pretty cool and knows a lot about literature. 
But while there doubtlessly are many non-realistic elements in Pynchon's 
work - he's certainly not a social realist -, it's nevertheless not 
unproblematic to say implicitly that his literature has no 
society-diagnostical value. Does, for example, the Californian Trilogy 
not help to understand the cultural changes that took place from the 
1960s to the 1980s? For me it certainly does.

On 30.07.2012 11:13, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

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> "Ich bevorzuge eine nichtrealistische Literatur - zum Beispiel die 
> surrealistische oder Claude Simon oder Cortázar oder Pynchon - die 
> nicht als Diagnostik der Gesellschaft bestimmt werden kann." (Karl 
> Heinz Bohrer)
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> Bohrer says he prefers a non-realistic literature which can not be 
> defined as a diagnosis of society.
> http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/kultur/article108412475/Von-der-Erotik-des-Denkens.html
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> http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bohrer/
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