Franzen and Pynchon

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Malcolm Lowry was practically driven to despair by as he saw it the onerous
influence of past masters. Figured Franzen got it out of his system with
his excoriation of William Gaddis in the New Yorker. Guess Franzen hasn't


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a subscription and ran out to the mailbox after reading your post,
> Joseph.
> My goodness was that article unbearable.... Franzen never casts off
> Pynchon, and is effectively subsumed by him along with others, I don't know
> how he got so popular except as perhaps a "Fad"...
>
> That said I still enjoy Harpers, if only because I currently cannot afford
> a sub. to Lapham's Quarterly...
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>> There is an article in the new Harper's(sept 2013) by J Franzen  titled A
>> Different Kind of Father in which he reviews the role of Pynchon as a
>> literary "father" he later rejected.
>>
>> The issue also has a good article by  William Vollman on his experience
>>  with the FBI  and Border Agents along with FOIA research into his FBI
>> files. For no discernible reason he was a suspect in the unabomber case.
>> Not quite Slothrop but Kafkaesque with a side of Marx brothers.
>
>
>
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