Thomas Pynchon Returns to New York, Where He's Always Been

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > What he really doesn’t like is being recognized for who he is, by 
people he does not know.

Few authors like this, I guess.

 From a reader's perspective I can contribute two stories:

In September 1990 I was in Paris to brush up my French. One afternoon I 
was walking the 16th arrondissement and turned into one of those tiny, 
narrow alleys. From the other direction came Austrian author Peter 
Handke who is known for his bad mood in public. (At a press conference 
he once told a journalist: "Gehn' Sie und lassen Sie sich ficken!") The 
problematic thing about the concrete situation was that the alley, as 
already said, was very narrow and small, and so we had to find a careful 
way to pass each other by without accident. Well, we succeeded and, to 
be honest, I enjoyed the asymmetrical perspective. Handke, who realized 
that I had recognized him, knew nothing about me, but I knew so many 
things about him. This made him aggressive, as I could see during the 
actual passing by, but since he's not grown tall he didn't say anything.

Some weeks ago I saw Joachim Lottmann, whose funny novels "Deutsche 
Einheit" and "Unter Ärzten" I just had read, in Hamburg on Eppendorfer 
Baum. First I wasn't sure and thought "Is this perhaps  Lottmann?", but 
in this very moment he, although more than 20 meters away, turned his 
head into my direction and started to stare at me in a very paranoid 
way. Prominent people do have antennas for this. Yes, it was Lottmann. 
My smile did not really relax him.


On 18.06.2013 10:09, Dave Monroe wrote:
> http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/06/thomas-pynchon-back-new-york/66140/
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