Mapping the World: Thomas Pynchon's Global Novels

[Perry Noid]

wait are you saying there are or aren't stupid questions with regard to the
GR read? or is that a stupid question?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> To All Relative Newbies on the Plist.
>
> This shows what levels of connection and textual memory you might get to
> if you read Gravity's Rainbow ten times. And the others more than once or
> twice. As I
> am always saying, if we all were closer to the Janeites or Proust readers,
> it
> would be a better world!
>
>
> I urge you to read this before the GR read, if you haven't.
> Tore Rye, who might still be a quiet lurker on the Plist is or was on for
> a long time.
> (here--or offlist?) is where I learned he may have read GR ten times and,
> therefore
> what a slacker I have been all my life. Or, to repurpose James Wright's
> line: I
> have wasted my ( reading) life.
>
> Tore should be hosting the read but he also has a real life AND, none of
> this is to intimidate
> even if you have never read GR (or finished it. Like Norman Mailer).
> Asking any questions
> is one of the best ways, as we can see from Mike's posting for his new
> translation, to touch bottom
> in the text. ---there are no stupid questions as the lie in the classroom
> and the business world goes,---
> but it may, like little spots of anarchy in Pynchon's worlds, be true here.
>
> Tidbit. I once posted here that Against the Day 'contained everything'.
> Tore
> posted that GR "contained everything". we had a fun exchange akin to
> mathematicians
> talking about sizes of infinity when I attempted to trump him with
> "Against the Day contains everything
> & GR".....(I only mean this in a fun, limited way, of course.)
>
> As I have told Tore directly, when I read Swedish Academy guy Engdahl say
> what he did about
> American literature I knew why TRP would not get a Nobel. They had to know
> that, even without
> Tore showing all the interconnections among the works, ATD showed his was
> a world imagination.
> So, he had been ruled out for other reasons. (I have an unproveable notion
> regarding that).
>
> Mark
> PS. Waiting for Godot Not. (Laura you are going to regret all the time
> you've given me. An improv jazz-like
> mostly soloing i had figured, it won't be. Big jazz band I hope with as
> many characters and plot strands
> as Against the Day.) Get all your slacker friends aboard. Tore's piece
> shows why no serious contemporary
> reader CAN NOT read Pynchon in depth. (I loved how mini Franzen appears
> herein.)
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Martin Eve <martin at martineve.com> wrote:
>
>> Mapping the World: Thomas Pynchon's Global Novels
>>
>> Tore Rye Andersen
>>
>> Taking Horace Engdahl’s critique of the insularity of American literature
>> as its starting point, the essay goes on to discuss Richard Gray’s and
>> Michael Rothberg’s recent articles in American Literary History, both of
>> which call for a literature capable of addressing the contemporary global
>> reality. While both Gray and Rothberg claim that such a literature has yet
>> to be written, the essay argues that Thomas Pynchon’s three novels
>> Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day can profitably be read
>> together as an ambitiously conceived world-historical trilogy which tells
>> the story of the gestation and emergence of our contemporary global reality.
>>
>> Published in Orbit. http://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.178
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>> Birkbeck, University of London
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