Not P. Cormac

[Erik T. Burns]

see also Hemingway's The Garden of Eden (not entirely fair because he
didn't finish it, but still)

or, and dare I say this? (sure, because it might start an interesting
argument!), Pynchon after Against the Day... (or maybe after M&D?!)


On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 2:10 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The reviewer does make it feel as if McCarthy has jumped the shark with
> this one. And his observation that when McCarthy focuses on the day-to-day
> life and interactions of Western, the main character, that real
> profundities emerge, does ring true.
>
> I don’t know if it’s applicable here, but the architect Frank Loyd Wright
> was an undeniable genius,and his work anticipated avant-garde modernism,
> which was to follow and supersede his work from across the shore in
> Europe.  But Frank Loyd Wright’s work during his senior years was far from
> genius.  in fact,  some of it is just schlocky.
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:30 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the reviewer, whom I know, likes old-fashioned "life and life only
>> fiction" basically....that remark about Melville for example...
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 2:36 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > So this will be his "Ratner's Star"?
>> >
>> > it's too bad they gave the book to a grumpy reviewer. of course after a
>> > huge career there's an (inevitable?) slide in to what seems to younger
>> > readers like self parody
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 6:20 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/18/cormac-mccarthy-novel-passenger/
>> >> --
>> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> >>
>> >
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>>
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