Caro

[Mark Kohut]

I won't have time for Caro while catching up with Jung while rereading Against the Day "again" and
some background for it.....(written smilingly).
 
I do not know whether I am ready to groan or look forward to all the journalism about Congress
and the Presidency then vs.now; everyone using Johnson as an example of how to get things done,etc.
when it is reviewed and written about. The anticipation, as manifested here, is huge among those who 
follow politics and history. Because of Caro's incredible time-taking care, he has created the unexpected
consequence of interest via absence and scarcity. 
 
My question is to anyone,based on only reading parts of earlier voulumes, his almost-naturalistic granularity, his
massive Dreiserian attention to human and political detail........................
Could it be abridged without losing its essence in the translation? 
 
Or like Proust or Against the Day [for me---I know many plisters think otherwise] EVERY word makes the art?
Perhaps like Dreiser? 
 

From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: malignd at aol.com; pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 6:33 AM
Subject: RE: Caro


Dear me: I find myself at least 100% in agreement about this, 100% about Sheldrake and 90% about Jung (your previous post).
 
This cannot bode well.
 
From:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of malignd at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 7:23 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Caro
 
The fourth and last volume of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson available May 1.  I'd put this -- the entire four volumes -- in the top ... five? -- not only of history, but literature in the last fifty years. 
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