Pynchon and the crisis of man

[ish mailian]

Thanks for letting us know about this book. I can'r recall seeing it,
but I might have overlooked it too, so thanks very much.  I'll
certainly give it a go.

This sentence on the PP got my attention:

Critics' predictions of a "death of the novel" challenged writers to
invest bloodless questions of human nature with flesh and detail.
Hemingway, Faulkner, and Richard Wright wrote flawed novels of
abstract man. Succeeding them, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Flannery
O'Connor, and Thomas Pynchon constituted a new guard who tested
philosophical questions against social realities—race, religious
faith, and the rise of technology—that kept difference and diversity
alive.


http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10326.html

I must say that the claim about the new guard doesn't much interest me
but the claim that the old guard, that includes Wright, Hemingway, and
Faulkner, wrote flawed novels of abstract man, is, well ...
provocative enough to get me to order the book, have a look.

Wright certainly wrote deeply flawed novels, but Hemingway, and
Faulkner...well...I want to see that claim and how it is defended.

Cheers,

Ish



On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was given Greif's book. Should I read it, or should I spend that time
> reading something else?
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In Greif's book, The Age of the Crisis of Man, Greif speaks of that
>> concept of Man, of being human, and in three books ( with Man in the title)
>> Dangling Man, Invisible Man, and A Good Man Is Hard to Find he sees the
>> whole concern with " the human" being plumbed, --"to explore whether there
>> is any unmarked moral core to being human" --then says V. came along to show
>> the end of that effort, ....
>>
>> Sent from my iPad-
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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