Nabokov/Pynchon

[davemarc]

Daniel Zalewski's review in the NYTimes (p. 32) of Brian Boyd's Nabokov's
Pale Fire, sez, in part, "Yet [Boyd's] argument, for all its oddities,
ultimately coheres into an intricate pattern that reflects the spirit of
Nabokov, who valued concord--aesthetic and moral--above all else. 
Deconstruction-minded literary critics have mistakenly placed 'Pale Fire'
on the bookshelf alongside maddeningly irresolvable texts like Pynchon's
'Crying of Lot 49.'  Boyd's singular reading of 'Pale Fire' suggests a
novel that is in fact startlingly harmonious, one in which life and death
blend in seamless unity."

Eh.

d.