No novels from Roth anymore

jochen stremmel jstremmel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 09:39:31 CST 2012


Why does that (of all places: here) endlessly repeated reproach remind
me of Lichtenberg's aphorism about the book and the head that bang
together?


2012/11/9 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> cause it sucked?
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:
>> Why?
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Friday, November 9, 2012 1:19 PM
>> Subject: No novels from Roth anymore
>>
>>
>> http://www.lesinrocks.com/2012/10/07/livres/philip-roth-nemesis-sera-mon-dernier-livre-11310126/
>>
>> Philip Roth, now collaborating with his biographer, does not create literary
>> art anymore. This makes me think whether Pynchon is still writing. Wouldn't
>> it be a pity if Inherent Vice turned out to be his last book?
>>
>>
>>



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