V2

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Yes, I know.

Didn't the Pulitzer Advisory Board call (at least parts of) GR 
"unreadable", "turgid" & "overwritten" (not to forget: "obscene")?

No one would say this about the books of Robert Harris.

Not that I - & you know that - share the Advisory Board's opinion on GR, 
yet still: There are people, among them serious readers, who consider 
Pynchon to be a rather difficult author.

Am 22.09.20 um 12:36 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> "the gift of readability" means it ain't "hard" to read. Like the best 
> journalism.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 6:24 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen 
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de <mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de>> wrote:
>
>
>     When I hear "the V2s come to life as vividly as any of his human
>     characters" this immediately evokes the experience of reading
>     "Gravity's
>     Rainbow". Whether Pynchon, however, "has the great gift of
>     readability"
>     is an entirely different matter ... Has anybody out there already
>     read
>     "V2"?
>
>     "Harris finds the poetry in physics and the soul in engineering. He
>     makes the V2s come to life as vividly as any of his human
>     characters ...
>     Harris has the great gift of readability; there is no living novelist
>     whose books I am likelier to gobble up in one sitting." - Jake
>     Kerridge
>     (Telegraph)
>
>     https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116208/v2/9781786331403.html
>
>     Harris' "Fatherland" was an inspiration for the title of Kracht's
>     debut
>     novel "Faserland" (Faser is the German word for "fiber" & it
>     sounds more
>     or less exactly like father) from 1995.
>
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>