Malcolm Bradbury

[Terrance]

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"These experiments are far from being a negation of
fictional meaning, any more than they deny Modernism. Indeed
they have opened American fiction to a recovery of its own
national and international traditions...Nor was there
emphasis on irrealism and on fictionality a refusal of
historical awareness, as is clear in the the work of Thomas
Pynchon...Pynchon is a bitter satirist..."