Pynchon mention in Vollmann review

[Rich Clavey]

I agree.
Rich


--- On Sat, 4/13/13, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

From: James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pynchon mention in Vollmann review
To: "Kai Frederik Lorentzen" <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10:40 AM

I thought Europe Central was up with Vollmann's best, but didn't
consider any of it to allude to GR

James

2013/4/13 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
>
> In today's FAZ (p. 37) is a review of the German edition of Vollmann's
> Europe Central;
> there it says:
>
> "Es [the book] ist erkennbar eine Lebensliebe von William T. Vollmann, ein
> manisches Stück Literatur, das eher als mit Littels 'Wohlgesinnten' mit
> Thomas Pynchons 'Die Enden der Parabel' [GR] oder der 'Ästhetik des
> Widerstands' von Peter Weiss zu vergleichen ist, weil auch in diesen Romanen
> trotz der überreichen Materialsammlung jeweils ein strenges formales Prinzip
> waltet. (Und wer in sein Buch so viele Raketendiskurse oder auch einmal die
> Bemerkung einflicht: 'Wie also war er? Ich sehe in ihm die zentrale Figur
> einer Parabel', der verweist sehr deutlich auf die Leitmetaphorik von
> Pynchon)."
>
> There certainly is a "formal principle" at work in Gravity's Rainbow. But is
> it "rigid"? I don't think so. And are there really "that many rocket
> discourses" in Europe Central that they must be understood as an allusion to
> Pynchon? Haven't read Vollmann's book yet, so I cannot judge this. Anyone?
> What can be said, once more, is that Gravity's Rainbow is by now definitely
> part of the German canon of Weltliteratur.
>
>



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