Vineland underrated

[Ghetta Life]

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>
>
>>From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
> >
> > >From: Mike Weaver <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org>
> > >Vineland IMLWO is a novel [...] where the betrayal is occasioned by the
> > >daughter of a strong labour movement/socialist family tradition taking 
>up
> > >with and working for the (capitalist) Establishment. The novel ends 
>with
> > >the annual gathering of that family, taking the prodigal back into its
> > >warmth, thereby reasserting the communal values of the Wobblies and 
>their
> > >descendants.
> >
> > The description above sound like a boring and simplistic morality tale 
>to
> > me.  That is ain't the Pynchon I'm used to.  He's all about ambiguity 
>and
> > paradox IMHO, but this ain't his best work, so...>
>
>What are the criteria for a good Pynchon-novel in your opinion?
>
>"As a postmodernist work of fiction, Thomas Pynchon's Vineland exhibits 
>suspicion toward master-narratives. [...]

I've already noted a few criteria in the last two posts about VL:  ambiguity 
and paradox, luscious and complex descriptions and situations (beautiful 
prose), multi-layered meanings incorporating multilayered references.  I 
don't think VL fits this bill very well.

Ghetta

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