Chris Marker R I P

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/30/2012 7:44 AM, ojpesh at gmail.com wrote:
> French daily, le Monde, has just announced Chris Marker's death. One 
> of the most secretive and reclusive French artists, he was 91.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: * Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> *Sender: * owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Date: *Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:01:56 +0200
> *To: *pynchon -l<pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *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.

Can you have a "diagnosis of society" and at the same time  lack any 
kind of effective cure?

P




>
> On 30.07.2012 11:13, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>
>>
>> "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)
>>
>> 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
>>
>> http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bohrer/
>>
>>   
>>
>>
>>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20120730/3fa412d0/attachment.html>