NP 2666

[Mark Kohut]

Of course, Mr. Tanenhaus's response came after my note below. Just FYI.


Sam Tanenhaus <tanenhaus at nytimes.com>

3/8/07
to me
>>
>>  Many thanks for this. You're quite right. We all remember the magnificent Pynchon review of Garcia Marquez. I'd give a lot to get him in our pages again.



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>> March 6, 2007
>>
>> Mr. Sam Tanenhaus
>> New York Times Book Review
>>
>>
>> Dear Mr. Tanenhaus.
>>
>> A couple-three things as Pynchon puts it.
>>
>> 1) you probably know that Mr. Pynchon is
>> rumored--and there is some textual "evidence",
>> perhaps, in Against the Day--to have read
>> in Spanish the upcoming Farrar title
>> The Savage Detectives. Many of us remember
>> his front-page review of Love in the Time of Cholera.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been brought up before. I'm about 100-or-so pages into
> Roberto Bolaño's big book and I'm convinced the fictional German author
> Archimboldi is very P-inspired. Picked it up at the used bookstore a while
> ago because it had a comparison to Pynchon on back cover. I'm wholly
> unfamiliar with Bolaño, didn't even know what the book was about when I
> started reading. It is quite good so far. I'm at the point where, I think,
> Archimboldi, will go from focal point to catalyst. After globe-hopping and
> becoming intertwingled with each other's lives, not exactly in search of the
> elusive author, the main characters hear tell of a sighting in Mexico City
> of all places! It is presumed that he has gone to the fictional city of
> Santa Teresa in Sonora (Juarez) after and now the Scooby Gang is on his
> trail. There was about one sentence early on in the book of one of them
> being taken by the news of the maquiladora murders followed by a sentence
> announcing that it was completely forgotten afterwards by the same
> character. And now that is where they are heading without another remark
> about it.
>
> Y'all were talking about identifying with characters and I've struggled to
> think of any, from any book I've read, ever. I think Bailey hit the nail on
> the head for me. I say this because I do not identify with a single
> character in this book so far, mostly because their lives are wildly
> different from mine, and the idea seems entirely unimportant. It's not why i
> read books.
>
> Anyhooz, was just wondering if anyone else has read this and/or has thoughts
> about it.
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