Arrggh ... VN

[rich]

thx for suggestion. The Revisionaries sounds a bit like Coover's The
Brunists Day of Wrath

rich

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 3:32 PM Douglas Holm via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Pnin is probably Nabokov's most "human" book (with Ada and its  successors
> the least). Few literary "tricks" except for maybe when the
> malapropy-in-English Pnin speaks "Russia" to contemporaries, his speech is
> marvelous.  Like two different guys.  The U of Washington Press has a book
> about the man who supposedly inspired Pnin.  The novel (really a set of
> short stories) makes a fine company piece to Pale Fire, in setting, and
> psychology.  Add to that Speak Memory, and one has a deeply compassionate
> trilogy of books on statelessness (among other things).
>
> Knopf is publishing a new collection of Nabokov interviews, letters, and
> essays in a couple of weeks, edited by Brian Boyd.
>
> By the way, the new novel, The Revisionaries by A R Moxon  from Melville
> House, is publicized as Pynchonesque, but glancing inside it seems more
> Wallace and Gaddis, and probably several more I don't recognize.
>
> > On Nov 8, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Picked up a copy of Pnin at my local bookseller today. I'll be reading it
> > at my own leisurely rate, but will definitely comment here, with spoiler
> > warnings, when moved to.
> >>
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