A sort of thesis

[Mark Kohut]

As I went on to say, size and scope matters in making my case...

yeah, just a so what discussion to have.

A feeling about Ambition of theme re all.


On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:35 AM, john bove <malignd at gmx.com> wrote:
> In what way is Finnegans Wake greater than Ulysses or ATD than GR?  My
> answer would be in no ways.
>
> I prefer Faustus to Magic Mountain and Dog Years to Tin Drum.  Bt so what?
>
> And have you actually "read" Finnegans Wake?  NOt doubting, only curious.
>
>
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 6:13 AM
> From: "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: A sort of thesis
> There are a few "big" books that have the status
> of great novels that all cluster in my head in the same
> place.
>
> Moby Dick, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain, The Man Without
> Qualities, The Tin Drum, The Golden Notebook, Gravity's
> Rainbow, Portrait of a Lady, Middlemarch, Cairo Trilogy, Radetzky March
> and like that.
> Swap out or add others, we can do.
>
> Proust in seven volumes is in a class by itself because of length.
> (Some say first three volumes equivalent to the above bracketing?)
>
> But I think the two most ambitious novels in English, perhaps, the only ones
> I can think of this morning, that might be 'great' in even larger ways
> than the above
> are Finnegan's Wake and Against the Day.
>
> Argue with me. Find others?
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