John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961 | Literary Hub

[Jochen Stremmel]

Yes, quite interesting. Especially because this man, Williams, wrote a
(anti-Emersonian) Western novel himself around that time that's also
interesting as fuck (to quote a man who's in the know about what happens in
Syria and thereabouts as if he'd been there himself and could write an
Eastern, ah, article about it). And we had already Elmore Leonard with some
good novels and Oakley Hall with one that Mr. Pynchon read as we know.



Am Do., 5. Dez. 2019 um 12:44 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> This is the novelist who wrote Stoner and other works. This is from 1961.
> This starts with fine words on that Pynchonian--American--theme of New
> England religiosity,
> Calvinism, so to label it and attendant ideas.
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> It moves to seeing that Good-Evil calvinism in western fiction. Sometimes
> overcome with
> Grace, the Emerson infusion. (see Emerson allusions early in ATD).
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> Interesting as fuck. (that's a high lit-crit term) To me.
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