Bleeding Edge Review

[Otto]

Of course I googled the guy who wrote the review. He knows Martin
Walser and Christa Wolf, two authors who are boring me.

That's it - he doesn't know Pynchon, and without any knowledge of
Pynchon's oeuvre and of postmodernism you can only misread "Bleeding
Edge".

2014-09-23 22:38 GMT+02:00 Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:
> Thank you, Otto.
>
> Apart from the fact that I think BE is a wonderful novel and the author of
> that review doesn't, this --
>
> "Eine realistische Darstellung muss die Welt so verwirrend und belanglos
> abbilden, wie sie ist. Ein guter Roman aber kann daraus nicht werden."
>
> Roughly: 'Realistic representation has to show the world as confusing and
> irrelevant as it is. A good novel, however, can not result from this.'
>
> -- is either lazy or stupid. This is wrong for so many reasons...
>
> Thomas
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l