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[Michel]

If I remember well there was a piece in French paper Libé that quoted or 
his sister Judith or his mother Katherine Bennett as saying that "he 
wants us to leave him alone, so we leave him alone", or some sorts. Was 
about the best researched piece on Pynchon's life at the time.

This piece:

Fogel, Jean-François. "Les auteurs de nos 25 ans (Les compagnons de 
Libération). Sur la piste de 'Pynch'." Libération [19 March 1998]: 
26-28. Biography originally published in Libération as L'écrivain 
invisible: la piste Pynchon [11 October 1985]: 30-33.

Michel.

On 2016-02-19 10:16, John Bailey wrote:
> Have we even discussed that piece at length? I reread it this morning
> (thanks Tyler!) and it's a really extensive piece of research, maybe
> the most extensive on Pynchon's bio? And he seems to be very familiar
> with the writing itself, if not overly respectful of the desire for
> privacy.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 7:56 PM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Tyler,
>> 
>> Thanks, I had forgetten about the Kachka piece. That must have been 
>> it, but
>> I thought I had come across something that referred to his parents 
>> later
>> years and a reconciliation of sorts.
>> 
>> (What is the Pyn community consensus on the piece? I know that Jules
>> Siegel's Playboy interview is sometimes called into question on 
>> grounds of
>> motive (self-serving, revenge, etc.), but what about Boris' work?)
>> 
>>    Ok, wait, you deserve big thanks my man. I went back to look at the
>> Kachka piece and not only does it have the line you mention, but it 
>> also,
>> further on, includes that in the 1990's, "Pynchon told friends he was 
>> seeing
>> a lot more of his parents" which following what we know about 
>> Pynchon's
>> politics and his parent's (father a Serious Republican and mother a 
>> serious
>> catholic and likely anti-semite) allows us to infer that there was at 
>> least
>> a rift of sorts that was then mended.
>> 
>>   That's what I was after. I owe you a beer, or whatever.
>> 
>> Very Appreciatively,
>> Matt Cissell
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Matthew —
>>> 
>>> Though it isn't stated explicitly, that information can be gleaned 
>>> from a
>>> couple passages of Boris Kachka's 2013 piece for Vulture:
>>> 
>>> http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html
>>> 
>>> " . . . he and his then-girlfriend, Mary Ann Tharaldsen, were driving
>>> through Big Sur when she complained of nausea. She wanted to stop at 
>>> a bar
>>> and have a shot to settle her stomach. According to Tharaldsen, he 
>>> exploded,
>>> telling her he would not tolerate midday drinking. When she asked 
>>> why, he
>>> told her he’d seen his mother, after drinking,  accidentally puncture 
>>> his
>>> father’s eye with a clothespin. It was the only time, says 
>>> Tharaldsen, who
>>> lived with him, that he ever mentioned his family. “He was 
>>> disconnected from
>>> them,” she says. “There seems to have been something not good there.” 
>>> "
>>> 
>>> "Pynchon and Jackson married in 1990 and had a son—first name 
>>> Jackson—a
>>> year later. Pynchon told friends he was seeing a lot more of his 
>>> parents. .
>>> . . "
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> T
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 18, 2016, at 3:59 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear P-listers,
>>> 
>>> I have a problem and that is that I could swear that I read somewhere 
>>> that
>>> Pynchon had been a bit estranged from his folks but that he 
>>> eventually made
>>> peace with them. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Where did that 
>>> come
>>> from? I can't find the source now. Was it from Phyllis Gebauer?
>>> 
>>> Beseechingly,
>>> mc otis
>> 
>> 
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