John Hawkes' significance

[Ya Sam]

When you look at literary criticism of the 1960s and 1970s the name of John 
Hawkes is always used on a par with those of Pynchon, Barth, Gass, 
Barthelme, Vonnegut. From the perspective of the 1990s and the beginning of 
the 21st century the value of this writer has considerably decreased as you 
can hardly come across his name these days. So, was he an overrated writer 
after all? I've read only 'Cannibal" and 'Lime Twig', and although I found 
him interesting I, for one, would not put him on the same level as Pynchon 
and Barth.

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