Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Mark Kohut]

I loved Runaway Soul, formless (f it is) or not....


From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2013 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?




Three novels which haven't been mentioned yet:

Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald)

VALIS (Dick)

The Runaway Soul (Brodkey)


None of these is perfect, but each one is - as Rushdie wrote in his review of The Runaway Soul - "worth a hundred safe little well-made books." For my understanding of America these novels are very important.
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