Pynchon

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• (Thus the frequent enough criticism that Pynchon's characters are "cartoonish" is completely misconceived.) February 2010
• Certainly not in either of Pynchon's subsequent novels, Vineland and Mason & Dixon, each of which has its many excellences, but neither of which anyone is planning to take with them to the moon.
• If he is led through some mazes that remain mazy and if the full import of what he discovers is not altogether assimilated, this is only par for the course in Pynchon's fiction, and having gone through the process of seeking the truth has been more enlightening than not, bothfor Doc and for the reader. February 2010
• He was, as appears to be the too-obvious definition that seems to cow reviewers by its obviousness, the true crafter of a postmodern 'sincerity' -- a seemingly impossible task in the wake of Pynchon and the psychosexual slapstick of characters like "Oedipa Maas" and "Tyrone Slothrop. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
• In fact, it's sometimes incurious about his life and work, concentrating rather on the mix of fragments, whispers and urban myths that have arisen about Pynchon, due to his aversion to being photographed or interviewed.
• But a truly great critic would take on the actual arguments, interpretations, and exegeses of Pynchon’s most eloquent and intelligent admirers. 2010 July | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
• People aren't interested in deconstructing the intricacies of Foucaultian power structures in Thomas Pynchon novels -- they are interested in City of Heroes. Of course it's hard -- if it wasn't hard, everyone would do it
• I can't post about Novi Pazar without quoting one of my favorite bits from Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow:This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novi Pazar desk at the Foreign Office, an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question, for on this obscure sanjak had once hinged the entire fate of Europe: Languagehat.com: "BOSNIAN" IN NOVI PAZAR.
• Perhaps it would be more accurate to call Gravity's Rainbow a "Menippean Satire," as a number of Pynchon scholars have pointed out, but one of the great accomplishments of the novel has been its ability to incorporate other and multifarious literary (and non-literary) forms without sacrificing its own integrity as an identifiable (if omni-directed) literary form in its own right. Postmodernism
• Thomas Pynchon 's Gravity's Rainbow, the vocoder is a vehicle, a proxy for forces bigger than the freaks-Egyptian Lover, JFK-who employ it. Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories