one great short story writer, they say, who has complex plots it seems

[ish mailian]

A Giant Step! In Carl, the Barringtons, Mr. McAfee, we have, as Joe Boulder
argues, quite convincingly, a young Pynchon that recognizes his containing
of Blacks, a recognition that the government and courts, and even some
prominent civil rights leaders (i.e., King),  with their famous civil
rights laws, fail to recognize or address.


Stylistically, thematically, structurally a far superior work to the other
tales in the republished collection, it is surprising that more has not
been written about it. That entropy or under the rose have been far more
intriguing to the critical industry and the makers of syllabuses so far is
not down to the excellence of those stories but to the critical focus of
the Pyndustry.

I happen to agree with P's assessments of his tales and of his "novel" and
of this little gem.


On Saturday, February 27, 2016, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> His mind, his confidence, his self-understanding of his ambition just
> 'grew into it"?
>
> Brain scientists and psychologists who are nowhere as deep as McGilchrist,
> are always saying---in general we are at our greatest intellectual, esp
> creative best around late twenties, early thirties.....
>
> I often wonder if he did not read The Recognitions until after he had
> finished
> V and the early stories and THAT showed him a long, broad canvas full of
> some themes he resonated with and he felt he could get down in his unique
> way.
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:00 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ishmailian at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>>  For those interested in P's development, the SL Introduction is
>> useful and necessary but at the same time, nearly useless because it
>> tells almost nothing about the giant step in his development that is
>> evident in GR and in the major works.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Steps
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> > By the bye, the plot of The Secret Integration is pretty complex, no
>> wonder
>> > he
>> > thinks of the concept re stories. The characters, the scenes and the
>> > flashback
>> > and present tenseness...and that surprise.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Ish,
>> >>
>> >> I was going to write my version of that insight on the morrow. Yes.
>> >> Just finished The Secret Integration, love it for the first time
>> >> (half-dismissed it because hastily stupid the first reading)
>> >> and I'm looking for your rewording of what thoughts I get down.
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:40 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ishmailian at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> The fact that P never published a short story he'd written after these
>> >>> Slow Learners may suggests that the short story is not a length that
>> >>> he excels in. The failure of "The Crying of Lot 49", a short on
>> >>> steroids, supports this conjecture. But who knows? Maybe he's got a
>> >>> book full of shorts that will dazzle us. I doubt it though. Pynchon's
>> >>> shorts are not weak merely because of the juvenile attitudes and the
>> >>> college boy craft of fiction, they simply can't let Pynchon do what he
>> >>> does best: write hysterical high modernism.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> >>> > When one---I---think more clearly of complexly plotted short story
>> >>> > writers, and esp for UNDER THE ROSE day, I see why TRP's comparison
>> >>> > with Le Carre is less weird than my stupidity.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Jochen Stremmel <
>> jstremmel at gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jstremmel at gmail.com');>
>> >
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Alice Munro came to mind as well.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> 2016-02-26 11:51 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>>:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> One restriction she had little time for, however, was sticking to
>> a
>> >>> >>> single point of view. Almost all her stories are written in the
>> third
>> >>> >>> person, and almost all of them access the thoughts of multiple
>> >>> >>> characters.
>> >>> >>> Sometimes she flicks briefly into the thoughts of an incidental
>> >>> >>> character
>> >>> >>> (in The Letter Writers it is a nosy neighbour who intrudes on
>> Emily’s
>> >>> >>> lunch), while elsewhere she cycles more methodically through a
>> >>> >>> story’s cast,
>> >>> >>> building a scene from multiple perspectives. Oasis of Gaiety
>> (1951),
>> >>> >>> about a
>> >>> >>> boozy afternoon party, is a bravura example.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >
>> >>> -
>> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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