pynchon mention in NYT

[Burns, Erik]

Foax:
thanks to whoever posted that James Wood piece in NYTBR.
it's not exactly praise of TRP and this - among other comments about other
writers - will, as this piece makes glaringly clear, set a standard for his
own novel when reviewed.
inneresting. i vaguely remember Wood & his "Broken Estate" being discussed
here cupla years ago in re allegory & trp, but don't recall this cite as
such.
etb

'And those who fall short of his standards provoke his ire. He has called
Mr. Pynchon's characters "not human" and "serfs to allegory." It is a sign
of Mr. Pynchon's "powers of evasion and self-subsidence," Mr. Wood wrote,
"that few question the banality, or worse," of some of his ideas.'