journey into mind of p

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Thomas Pynchon - A Journey into the Mind of [P.]
Peter Bradshaw, Friday May 2, 2003, The Guardian

"This odd little documentary isn't really about Thomas Pynchon, the author
of V, Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49.
In fact, it's sometimes incurious about his life and work, concentrating
rather on the mix of fragments, whispers and urban myths that have arisen
about Pynchon, due to his aversion to being photographed or interviewed.
The film has a saucer-eyed reverence for Pynchon's status as a "recluse".
But could it be that, like Thomas Harris, he just doesn't care for personal
publicity?
Pynchon doesn't live in Mexico, or the moon, but in New York; unlike JD
Salinger, he is still publishing, and he authorised a costly promotional
push for his 1997 novel Mason & Dixon. This obtuse film semi-deliberately
fails to engage Pynchon as a writer or as a person. It's pretty
exasperating."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,947494,00.html