And NOWHERE is Pynchon mentioned!

[Mark Kohut]

I don't know who Herr Brinkmann is---more intellectual gaps in this
thingless American---but Williams' remark might exemplify
why HIS [Williams] kind of poetry lost out to Pound/Eliots' modernism
in his century. ( I think I remember reading how intellectually
horrified Williams was by The Wasteland).

I, a nobody, would argue that the complexity of modernity, the growth
of historical intelligence, sociological and anthropological
awareness, etc. means novelists of ideas win (if they are as good
writers as Williams was a poet).

Most Mann novels are still worth reading when Williams' couple are not
now, right?

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 5:57 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>> “Everything is contained in the American novel except ideas,” Philip Rahv
>> wrote exasperatedly in 1940, just as the European novel achieved, in the
>> hands of Musil and Mann, its intellectual apotheosis. <
>
> "No ideas but in things." (W.C. Williams)
>
> And that's exactly what the writer Rolf Dieter Brinkmann loved about
> American literature!
>
> Btw, Brinkmann was among the first German readers of Pynchon's "V" which he
> found in a London bookstore during the mid 1960s.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Dieter_Brinkmann
>
>
> On 12.12.2015 15:46, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/books/review/whatever-happened-to-the-novel-of-ideas.html?ref=review&_r=1
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