On elite and ambiguous writing

[Paul Mackin]

I wonder if John Banville would consider Pynchon to be an honorary  
Irish writer?


"English writers for the most part try to follow Orwell's dictum that  
prose should be a pane of clear glass through which you look," he  
said. "But Irish writers think of prose style as a distorting lens.  
We love that ambiguity; we love that a word can have three or four  
meanings at the same time."


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/college/coll02banv.html