/lit/ - Literature

>>20601990

>>18725900
>I don't think
We know.

>you ever realize how many Jews were in your beloved V.?
What does this have to do with Roth being a hack? You're NOT pulling this gag are you?

Why not try convincing anyone reading this thread that Roth is in fact talented. Apparently you like American Pastoral. Why?

Sabbath's Theater is far better. It's still riddled with so much cringe it remains ignored.

Face it, Roth was garbage. And no one cares =\

#8

#9?

>>7056291
>I think one of the reasons he stays out of the public spotlight is that he doesn't want anyone to know what, if anything, he believes.

It's probably the only way to force your readership to take your works for exactly what they are.

Whereas many writers and artists in general have a public presence that influences the perception of their work, in an interesting reversal, Pynchon's public presence is one created almost entirely FROM his work.

Think of JD Salinger, someone else who stayed largely out of the spotlight, but because all people had to go off of was his works, a fairly tame literary figure was put onto him. Going off of Gravity's Rainbow though, you have the image of this impossible counterculture myth at the helm of Pynchon's works, cobbled together mostly from the characters he created.

I don't think it was on purpose, but I have no doubt once it happened Pynchon decided not to interrupt it.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44422641-oedipa-maas

I've just removed all my books, but please do send me a request

>>6485671
Also this from Inherent Vice. Pynchon is the hand.