anthony burgess pynchon fan/trp in valletta?

[peterthooper at juno.com]

https://www.anthonyburgess.org/object-of-the-week/object-week-pynchonalia/


"The archive contains one piece of correspondence between Pynchon and Burgess. In an undated letter Pynchon responds to Burgess’s claim that in V. ‘Pynchon gives us Malta without having been there’ by asking ‘How do you know this?’ It is likely that he was reacting to Burgess’s 1973 interview in the Paris Review, in which Burgess says, ‘Probably (as Thomas Pynchon never went to Valletta or Kafka to America) it’s best to imagine your own foreign country’."

imho, the tall, nauseated sailor riding the bus in one of the current-day scenes in Valletta in _V._ is a TRP cameo.
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