NP very Misc on C.P Snow

[Tom Beshear]

I read a couple of them over 30 years ago -- recall very little about them, other than that they plod along and the prose rarely soars.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Kohut 
  To: Mark Kohut ; Dave Monroe ; pynchon -l 
  Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 7:33 AM
  Subject: Re: NP very Misc on C.P Snow


  Library in Nashville still cannot give away Snow's novels. And I never see them praised any more in 
  journalistic histories of 20th Century English fiction...in fact, have seen them dissed in a couple......
  Compared to Powell's series, say....

  And to think I once wanted to read them.


  From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
  To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
  Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 6:21 AM
  Subject: NP very Misc on C.P Snow



  Herbert Gold, who replaced Nabokov as English prof at Cornell, and himself a once-praised novelist--
  although Roth once got, compassionately, to the botttom of one failed novel (in his opinion)---is the
  major American blurb writer on the US edition of Snow's Strangers & Brothers, 1st in that series. 


  From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
  To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
  Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 6:50 PM
  Subject: Leavis v Snow: the two-cultures bust-up 50 years on


  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/16/leavis-snow-two-cultures-bust





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