M & D Group Read (cont)

[Mark Kohut]

We all remember, or have now learned, that Coetzee knew Pynchon's work well
enough to supervise at least one Phd on his work when he was teaching.
Documented and maybe the one I learned of was done even earlier than M & D,
dunno, but probably not and is mostly irrelevant, since great
empire-critical fiction
is there from the earliest work of both of them. See Dusklands and V and
articles on.

I fantasize that he and Pynchon are pen pal friends,at least, due to mutual
genius, some similar world theme concerns and interests. And, I don't
believe
that with all the essays on writers Coetze has written, he has not written
about Pynchon. A bit surprising if he can supervise a thesis, no?

He can't write about the influential friendly dog in the room is why? The
dog that didn't bark in the night, so to allude.



On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:59 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Re "a/the Castle": Definitely Kafka.
>
> Given the location, I am also reminded of Coetzee's more Kafkaesque
> novels, particularly "Waiting for the Barbarians." Outposts of the Empire...
>
> Am 10.01.2018 um 19:26 schrieb Smoke Teff:
>
>> Speaking of influences, homages, ancestries, reincarnations: I’m struck
>> again—mentioned it in one post but it may deserve repetition and
>> elaboration—at how much Kafka I see around here, these first ~150pgs or so.
>> (Which is not always the case with my experience of Pynchon.) I believe at
>> least three mentions of a/the Castle. The mass hypnosis. The folly that is
>> not quite mirthless, but is still kind of askew—amok—and horrifying. The
>> way there is madness that happens not center stage, maybe not even properly
>> on the stage at all.
>>
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