Thomas Pynchon's Sonic Fictions

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Just these days I came to think about the (possible) distinction between 
(primarily) sonic and (primarily) visual prose. Visual prose is written 
by Nabokov, Claude Simon, or Ernst Jünger, --- creating distinctive 
snapshots. Sonic prose is made by Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Hans Henny 
Jahnn, --- unfolding an acoustic landscape step by step. Although 
Pynchon writes a lot about modern visuality - optical instruments in 
M&D, stamps in CoL 49, photography in AtD, movies in GR, TV in Vineland 
- it's imo adequate to say that his prose is primarily of sonic 
character. Not sure how far this distinction leads, but for me it opens 
up an aspect.


On 23.02.2013 18:00, Dave Monroe wrote:
> https://forschdb2.unibas.ch/inf2/rm_projects/object_view.php?r=1454158&type=2
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> Thanks, Werner Presber!
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