Who is the heir to Thomas Pynchon?

[Ya Sam]

No lambasting from me, we mustn't forget that The Sotweed Factor was written 
much earlier than Mason and Dixon and Barth is undoubtedly a great 
contemporary of the greatest (IMHO) writer of the second part of the 20th 
century.
I believe we should also ask this question: in which way a novel of ideas 
should develop to overcome the anxiety of Pynchon influence?  Not that I 
wish to ramble into the territory of Harold Bloom, but still...

Y.

>From: Rcfchess at aol.com
>To: WillLayman at comcast.net, tony.antoniadis at gmail.com, takoitov at hotmail.com
>CC: pynchon-l-digest at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Who is the heir to Thomas Pynchon?
>Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:46:46 EDT
>
>And at the risk of getting lambasted - especially since he's a contemporary
>of TRP rather than an "heir" - I'd nominate another candidate as John 
>Barth,
>for  both writing ability and scope. Yes, I agree much of his later work 
>was a
>dilution of his earlier; but ya gotta pay SOME tribute to an epic like 
>Giles
>Goat Boy...no...?!?
>
>RF

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