Re: intelligence of the author vs. intelligence of the characters

you've really read Every word he published? :). The underpublished too?

Cool :) I still haven't gotten around to most of it.

Anyway...Oh God, yes, don't let Delillo pass you by, esp. if you like
Pynchon.

And if you like baseball and Frank Sinatra, the first chapter of
_Underworld_ is to die for :)

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think the first chapter of Delillo's _Underworld_
> > is, word for word,
> > probably better writing than anything Salinger ever
> > penned. But I don't
> > know how to even begin to argue for that. On what
> > basis can you really
> > establish a comparison? And do the MFA's, then, on
> > the lists I provided
> > earlier really not compare that well to Salinger (on
> > a purely literary
> > basis, excluding nods to how much an author has
> > influenced readers)?
> > Have you read them all as much as you've read
> > Salinger?
> >
>
> given that i have read every word salinger has
> published, i can easily say i haven't read all of the
> authors on your list as much. :)
>
> i agree that 'gravity's rainbow' dwarfs 'catcher'; i
> haven't read 'underworld' but will put it on my 'to
> read' list. thanks.
>
> kim
>
> >
>
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