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

[Mark Kohut]

There is more that might not even be in the book...his friend K. Sale
on the small scale movement of Chesterton and his time....
I, raised very Catholic think about the (historic) papal encyclicals
which we could say are about not forgetting the preterite...
there is the aforementioned Catholic without Commitment Simone Weil
who wrote GRAVITY & GRACE!...and THE NEED FOR ROOTS....
There are Catholic theologians---Dunne is one---who develop a theology
of what I will call---making this up here---transcendant pantheism,
which I was reminded of when i reread Against the Day....

there is his exploration of Eastern Orthodoxy/Catholicism---this was
Warhol's tradition, so unusually mentioned herein---in Against the
Day, the branch which all admit gets back---thru Mark--closest to JC
hisself...

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> " 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.
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>
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> 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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