It may be strange but understandable given the general critical
apparatus/premises in place both in the media and in academia...Generalities
being what they are, this maybe a silly statement but...I find this
reluctance to accept him logical, if inexcusable...a bit like when you
mention Auster to crime stories critics or the literary media at large in
his own country...it takes years/decades for things to evolve in onešs own
backyard...
Montois...
On 8/8/09 6:17 PM, "jacquesdebierue" <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have to second this. Ever since I ran into a used copy of V., I became a
> total fan of Pynchon. Why so much hostility has been heaped upon him is a
> mystery to me. The same goes for another favorite, the late William Gaddis.
> Sometimes I think that the critics are a bunch of unimaginative squares...
> They can't just laugh at the Rev. Cherrycoke, like they are supposed to --
> instead, they have to go and talk about paranoia and the sublimatory dialogic
> of obfuscative meaning!
>
> I think Mason & Dixon ranks among the ten best American novels of the 20th
> century. It's even better than Gravity's Rainbow.
>
> Why the hostility in his own country against a brilliant writer who has
> nothing to prove and who has stuck to his work without messing with anybody?
> It's very strange.
>
> mrt
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