Gaddis and Pynchon

[Toby G Levy]

Back in the early days of Pynchon criticism it was thought that Pynchon
must have read the Recognitions while in college and that Pynchon used
some of Gaddis's stylistic devices from the many "crowd scenes" set in
bars in The Recognitions when he wrote his own "crowd scenes" set at
private parties in V.  I thought back then that this was weak criticism,
and as much as I loved the Recognitions when I read it in the 60s, I
never thought that Gaddis could carry Pynchon's pocket protector.  

The books that followed The Recognitions, in my most humble opinion,
varied between weak to unreadable.  Whereas the novels that followed V.
varied between amazing and absolutely incredible.

Toby

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