Quote of the Day

[Mark Kohut]

I'm with readers like Cowart, Seed. Profound analysis of ....our world.


From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: Quote of the Day



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.
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>http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/kultur/article108412475/Von-der-Erotik-des-Denkens.html http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bohrer/

 
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