re Re: Pynchon as "recluse"

[Craig Smith]

> “His comments risk the fierce opprobrium that has
> greeted other American intellectuals - among them
> Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag - who have
> dared to question the patriotism that still dominates
> America's public rhetoric.  But with his reputation in
> recent years cemented by a sequence of intensely
> political novels - including The Human Stain, I
> Married A Communist and American Pastoral - his is a
> powerful voice of dissent.”
> 
> Meanwhile Pynchon stays home, stays mute, and avoids
> the subway.

Pynchon's "V" suggested to me a frustration with the partisan nature of modern politics.

If that is so, why would he endorse a "side" when he believes the whole system is bunkum?

Words to ponder ;)


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