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

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 08:46:51 CST 2015


I bet you are right...we/all talk about THE EDUCATION but there is
MONT-SAINT MICHEL & CHARTRES

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> Interesting stuff on The Crying of Lot 49, --- a novella often underrated
> here on the list.
>
> What this review ignores is the influence Henry Adams had on Pynchon's
> "literary catholicism."
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> My favorite sentence:
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> "Pynchon might be considered the synthesis of the Catholicism of Marshall
> McLuhan and Andy Warhol, whose communions of saints spanned the electric and
> artistic worlds."
>
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> On 18.02.2015 12:15, Mark Kohut wrote:
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> 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/?list=nchon-l
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