anthony burgess pynchon fan/trp in valletta?
Carlo
mr.spoon21 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 14:24:08 CDT 2018
Nice, thanks for the link.
It might be worth pointing out that in the Italian translation shown in
one of the pictures there at least three typos
On 27/09/2018 19:31, peterthooper at juno.com wrote:
> https://www.anthonyburgess.org/object-of-the-week/object-week-pynchonalia/
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> "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’."
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> 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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