Not really Pynchon but starts with Lot 49...

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > Eco's TNOTR is so over-rated. <

Agreed. Same for 'Foucault's Pendulum.'

But Eco's theoretical works are much better. Especially 'The Open Work' 
(Opera aperta, 1962) contains a number of instructive studies. On Joyce, 
on TV, on Zen in the West ...



On 09.04.2015 16:49, David Morris wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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