Re: "To Celebrate the Best Parts of His Nature:" Fiction and the Discourse of Man – By Nick Ripatrazone - The Marginalia Review of Books

[Monte Davis]

" I certainly share Greif’s anxiety that Pynchon criticism might sometimes
be an exercise in remaking the author in one’s own image."

Hmm... Ya think?

I'm wholly unchurched myself, but this book ) is now a high priority
(thanks!. TRP through Catholic prisms with Flannery O'Connor and JK Toole
is *very* interesting. (And you know I'll get encyclopedic Dante in the mix
before I'm done.) Criticism has done a lot more with Wm Pynchon, Puritan
Calvinism, and The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption than with older
versions of our Fall that are every bit as evident and resonant throughout.




On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Catholic Pynchon. ( which we have discussed here). best novelist of his
> time, he sez.
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> http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/fiction-and-the-discourse-of-man/
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>
> Sent from my iPad-
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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