Bloom on Pynchon

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Tue Aug 22 16:09:50 CDT 2006


In a message dated 8/21/06 7:30:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
takoitov at hotmail.com writes:

<< 'V. and Gravity's Rainbow seem to me less as achievements than the 
extraordinary earlier novel which came between those two books, The Crying of Lot 49, 
which is a superb shot out of hell  as it were, and a book I cannot reread 
too often. Or, after a rather unfortunate book, called I think it was Vinemand 
[sic], which I could barely believe was by Pynchon, an immense return to his 
full dazzlement in the great book called Mason & Dixon, I would think his finest 
single achievement'. >>

Where's the part where he says that Pynchon is the greatest living 
English-writing author?



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