Misc on Pynchon and his blurbs

[Mark Kohut]

And shows (perhaps): his belief that the best fiction should be
interesting in "an experimental way"
i.e. the traditional forms are tired and therefore trite.

This is akin to an idea of McLuhan's (and not just him, but many lit
critics) in his role as lit scholar:
as the times are new (and they always are in debatable chunks), so too
must be the forms of art
speaking within them.

This might be said to be the literary base from which his speculative
ideas re the medium is the message
came from. New media, new forms, new genres, for new 'messages'/themes
of the era.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have thought the same sort of thing. Perhaps he is showing appreciation for things he finds interesting in an experimental way, or that caused him to read or see things in a different way, much like what he has done for us.
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
>> On Dec 11, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> a passing thought I used to have on many of the books Pynchon
>> blurbed was........how unlike his own writing many--most?--of them were.
>> (Saunders, few others are like).
>>
>> from Warlock, thru the aforementioned Stone Junction, thru graphic novels,
>> TRP seemed to like and praise beyond his own ways of writing---or is he
>> so almost-uniquely himself that this is trivially true?
>>
>> Except maybe visionarily?
>>
>> Generosity of appreciation? I have always thought he also praised what he
>> wanted to learn from as a writer. (Compared to many blurbers who we see
>> are asked to blurb because the book is much like their own work, at
>> least superficially)
>>
>> Discuss.
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