Re: Listen Up
J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:38:25 -0400 (EDT)
Yeah, I can't imagine Marquez being left off such a list either. Latin
American authors aren't considered Western, and African American authors
are only on there because we know we will hear complaints if they aren't
:)
But seeing Pynchon off the list, well, that makes me stop a second before
I start ascribing ethnocentric motives to the compilers of the list. I
think Mason and Dixon is one of the most important American books written
this century.
It just may need some time before it gets that recognition.
Jim
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:44:35 -0600 (MDT) WILL HOCHMAN
<hochman@uscolo.edu> writes:
>If Garcia Marquez can be excluded from this country, I suppose keeping
>him
>off such lists is easy enough but keeping him out of our hearts and
>minds?
>His ommission shows how silly the list is...I vote with my eyes and
>bookshelves and have never reached a point in my life where lists,
>genre,
>or period have stopped me from needing to turn a page or close a book
>and
>leave it.
>
>
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