Subject: Re: What are people reading?
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 19:28:06 EST
In a message dated 2/6/00 7:25:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
phm@midsouth.rr.com writes:
<< French's comment about "Invisible Man" being the "Moby Dick" of the
American
twentieth century has me pondering if there is a twentieth century book of
Moby Dick's stature? I can't think of any and I wonder what has changed in
writing and writers that in a century that produced more books by far than
any other there is nothing comparable to this classic. >>
Depends on who you're talking to and what you're looking for. I think we
have produced literature on that level this century. I think Ellison's work
deserves a lot of credit, as does Pynchon, and Faulkner, and even Hemingway
and Steinbeck. I would put Pynchon and Faulkner above the other names on
the list.
My problem is that once the works attain a certain level, a basis for
comparison starts falling away...
Jim
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