Subject: Re: Franny and Dixon
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@virtual.park.uga.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 16 1997 - 00:44:27 GMT
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, tiffany anne hanulec wrote:
> At the risk of being shot down (or just plain shot) I will offer my
> Pynchon/Salinger opinion. I <pause> like Pynchon better. Up until this
> year Salinger was my undisputed favorite, but then I read Gravity;s Rainbow
> and Lot 49 and was converted. I think you are right about him being a
> riddler, but he also is an amazing storyteller as well. I also think he is
> significantly more sophisticated in all respects.
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I certainly did not mean to discredit Pynchon as a storyteller. From what
I remember of _Lot 49_ (particularly the ending), he has quite a talent
for arrangement and pacing. The two writers aren't comparable past a
certain point--and at that point, I suppose, they simply shouldn't be
compared. Pynchon has probably had a greater impact on American letters
(and the world of Western letters as a whole) than Salinger, and that has
sometihng to do with Pynchon's level of sophistication. It's like
comparing Joyce and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Different writers, different
media, different readership, and different contribution to the, uh,
Western canon...
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