RE: Review: Thomas Pynchon's "Bleeding Edge" (David Auerbach @ The American Reader)

[Monte Davis]

Very much agreed on the second quotation, although I suppose Auerbach could
retreat behind "not IMMEDIATELY apparent." If one thing above all else
unites GR, M&D, AtD, and the flashback elements of V. and CoL49 and
Vineland, it's the continuity and contemporaneity of what was "urgent" in
their epochs.

 

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."   

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Carvill John
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 10:13 AM
To: jochen stremmel; lorentzen at hotmail.de
Cc: Dave Monroe; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Review: Thomas Pynchon's "Bleeding Edge" (David Auerbach @ The
American Reader)

 

Man that's a long, wordy article! I may return to it once I've finished the
book... But tell me now, is tehre  alot of this sort of stuff in it?:

 

>"Patterning micro-chaos into macro-order requires a large canvas before the
macro-order can emerge."

 

Meanwhile, this seems to me to be about as wrong as anyone could possibly
get:

 

>"At one point, Mr. Pynchon's work might have seemed likely to fade into
irrelevance as well. But his new novel, Bleeding Edge, asserts a
contemporary urgency that was not immediately apparent in his two prior
epic-length monsterworks, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day,..."

 

 

 

 

 

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