Re: pynchon mention in franzen interview

Pynchon´s world is fretting, introspective, raunchy, playful, wickedly iniciatic, ciclotimic, pointed, pervasively, pathologically wise.

De Lillo is, for the most part, simply dull. 

--Moni

--- "Richard Romeo" <[email protected]> wrote:
>one wonders if pynchon or delillo's work can be reduced to "playful 
>postmodern irony"
>playful isn't a word I'd use to adequately describe the range of Pynchon's 
>moods and styles or the seriousness of most of DeLillo's writings.
>
>thx for the update, k.
>
>rich
>
>
>>From: [email protected] (lorentzen-nicklaus)
>>Reply-To: <[email protected]>
>>To: <[email protected]>
>>Subject: pynchon mention in franzen interview
>>Date: 24 Jun 2002 14:02 GMT
>>
>>
>>
>>* "both authors [delillo & pynchon] were models for me for a long time. 
>>it's the way they, permanently threatened by tv and the atomic bomb, tried 
>>to picture a social totality as perfect as possible while keeping an ironic 
>>distance to the world we're living in. one has to be smart to do this, and 
>>self-confident, but for me this playful postmodern irony wasn't enough 
>>anymore. i wanted a novel in which ..." --- from this week's 'der spiegel', 
>>p. 151, own translation.
>>
>>
>>did this dude ever read vineland? kfl ***
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