A sort of thesis

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"Doktor Faustus" suffers from a basic construction problem:

What's the devil needed for when you have that fabulous twelve-tone 
technique?


On 16.01.2016 16:35, john bove 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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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l 

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