literary puzzle

[Doug Millison]

"Perhaps because I had grown up surrounded by abstract
expressionist painters, I had always thought the
search for meaning was vulgar; much later I realized
that I was for that very reason an unsatisfactory
reader of Robbe-Grillet, who counted on his audience's
urge to solve puzzles, even though he did not always
make them solvable: There was a good reason he'd
declared he was the natural descendant of Kafka." 

from a recent article by Edmund White,
http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Books-X!ArticleDetail-41394,00.html

Perhaps Pynchon is counting "on his audience's urge to
solve puzzles, even though he did not always make them
solvable" wtr COL49.  



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