Moody: M&D

jbor at bigpond.com jbor at bigpond.com
Fri Jul 1 19:11:22 CDT 2005


One of the better reviews (pdf available) of _M&D_:

'Surveyors of the Enlightenment' by Rick Moody. _Atlantic Monthly_ 
280.1, July 1997, pp. 106-110.

Begins:
"The novelist Robert Coover, speaking of influences in American 
fiction, once remarked that appentices of his generation found 
themselves (in the 1950s) grappling with two very different models of 
what the novel might be. One, Coover said, was Saul Bellow's realistic 
if picaresque _Adventures of Augie March_; the other was William 
Gaddis's encyclopedic _Recognitions_. Writers my age (mid-thirties), 
however, don't have the luxury of a choice. Our problem is how to 
confront the influence of a single novelist: Thomas Pynchon. [...]"
	
Moody seems to be one of the most perceptive and intelligent of 
Pynchon's American readers.

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