Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Tara Brady]

Dudes, where is my critique?


On 5 May 2013 00:30, Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd love to say Sound and Fury. Or Le May's The Searchers. Or Hall's
> Warlock.Or Gravity's Rainbow. BTW I'm trying to popularise the phrase
> 'Climbing the 'Bow' with my children. I'm counting on the P-List to back me
> up. Hsve eldest son reading book on idea that 'Climbing the 'Bow' is a cool
> thing to do.
>
>  But I've going with Rich - almost - and saying Make Love: The Bruce
> Campbell Way.
>
> I think - forgive me - the notion of the Great American Novel is done. The
> Great American Novel must be 20th century or not at all.  That is the US'
> century. This is the century beyond place.
>
> Gatsby is lovely in this respect.
>
> Btw very interested in Shot Heard Around World thread recently. As
> baseball World Series is so not at all worldwide.
>
> Best, T
>
> BTW I recommend Star Trek Into Darkness as Americana central. Americana
> was never better - and never made more sense to Rest of World - than  it
> did as Golden Age sci-fi.
>
> Then again my fave game is still I Have No Mouth on various proxies. Sad,
> I know.
>
>
>
> On 4 May 2013 23:55, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Eudora Welty
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Bekah
>> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 3:52 PM
>> To: kelber at mindspring.com
>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
>>
>> Yes to those Laura mentioned plus:
>>
>> Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence
>> Toni Morrison for Beloved
>>  Zora Neale Hurston for Their Eyes Were Watching God Kate Chopin for The
>> Awakening Pearl Buck for The Good Earth Jane Smiley for The Greenlanders
>> Alice Walker for The Color Purple
>>
>>
>> Bekah
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 4, 2013, at 11:50 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>
>> > My Antonia - Willa Cather
>> > The Dollmaker - Harriet Arnow
>> > To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (much beloved, though lacking in
>> subtext)
>> >
>> > Haven't read Edith Wharton, so don't know if she belongs.
>> >
>> > Personally, I think Gatsby doesn't hold up in this day and age. If
>> anything, the impending, glitzed up Luhrman (sounds like lurid) confirms
>> my
>> opinion.
>> >
>> > Laura
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: alice wellintown
>> > Sent: May 4, 2013 2:36 PM
>> > To: pynchon -l
>> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
>> >
>> > Say Fell-uzz, howz about puttin a lady on, dat dare list use is may kin?
>> Aint we got nothin to say what use boys finds worthy of readin wit he same
>> set of eyes as use read wit when all those macho authors is concerned?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Ian Livingston wrote:
>> > Covers my take on Gatsby:
>> http://skreened.com/daydream/ain-t-no-party-like-a-gatsby-party
>> >
>> > And where's Papa?
>> >
>> > I'd need more contemplating time to make a list....
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:31 AM, <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Lolita
>> > Sent from my BlackBerryR wireless device
>> > From: kelber at mindspring.com
>> > Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
>> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 11:23:40 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>> > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> > ReplyTo: kelber at mindspring.com
>> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
>> >
>> > USA - Dos Passos
>> >
>> > LK
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: David Morris
>> > Sent: May 4, 2013 11:20 AM
>> > To: Mark Kohut
>> > Cc: alice wellintown , pynchon -l
>> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
>> >
>> > A faulty list doesn't include Faulkner.  And I don't think All the
>> King's
>> Men fits this league.
>> >
>> > On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:
>> > Great American Novels:
>> > Moby Dick
>> > Huck Finn
>> > The Great Gatsby
>> > The Scarlet Letter
>> > The Grapes of Wrath (?)...does anyone ever reread?
>> > All the King's Men
>> > Portrait of a Lady
>> > Invisible Man
>> > Augie March or Herzog?
>> > Gravity's Rainbow
>> > Against the Day
>> >
>> > 11 of a top 10 list...(I guess Steinbeck would have to be dropped but
>> that
>> feels not just to the Joads.
>> >
>> > Argue and creat your own list, Plisters.....
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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