Pynchon's impact

[MalignD at aol.com]

> Too negative, imo.  For many young writers, Pynchon is the 800-pound 
> gorilla in the living room.>>
> 
Slightly more accurate to say that GR is the 800-pound bomb.
>   
> <<More broadly, his fiction makes possible a reception in the US for later 
> fiction that's difficult to imagine without Pynchon paving the way.>>
> 
He's posts-Joycean, as was Gaddis (although I think GR is probably more 
influential than The Recognitions).   Difficult to imagine Pynchon and Gaddis 
without Joyce.
> 
> <<Surely the world is a poorer place without Pynchon and his work.>>

I think that's safe to say.


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