Not really Pynchon but starts with Lot 49...

[jochen stremmel]

I think so, too: massively overrated. (But then, I never read more than 5
pages of it.)

2015-04-09 16:49 GMT+02:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> Eco's TNOTR is so over-rated.  It is just a pile-on of conspiracies that
> have been cooked up by others before him.  Questionable sources is just
> standard fare, not an allusion to COL49, IMHO.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For the first time, I opened THE NAME OF THE ROSE. In English,
>> 1983 or 1984 pubbed.
>>
>> I know one meme about it---one reason I never aggressively went to
>> read it, pace fans, refuting is allowed---is ECO's line that IT--All
>> Books?--are mead out of other books and he mixes historical
>> reality and lotsa historical 'imagination" in this mystery.
>>
>> So, it begins with the story of a medieval manuscript, 14th Century,
>> discovered first in the 18th Century and now rediscovered---"third in
>> chronological order" sez the narrator---which narrator
>> then finds another manuscript that seems to be a kind of source and
>> the first one is no longer in the monastery library and is suspected
>> now to be a forgery......
>>
>> THIS is a conceptual allusion to the Crying of Lot 49s internal work,
>> no?...Or is this just generic...
>> a whole historical meme about old manuscripts?....
>>
>> I cannot be the only one who has asked about this hugely-read work,
>> right? yet I cannot easily find a
>> link on the interwebs.
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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