Bloom on Pynchon

[Dustin Iler]

MalignD asked:

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

This is also given on the wiki page. If anyone has the interview/piece this 
is from, go ahead and post it so he'll shut up. Please.


>From http://www.answers.com/topic/harold-bloom

Of American novelists, he declared in 2003 "there are four living American 
novelists I know of who are still at work and who deserve our praise". 
Claiming "they write the Style of our Age, each has composed canonical 
works," he identified them as Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy 
and Don DeLillo. He named their strongest works as Gravity's Rainbow and 
Mason & Dixon, American Pastoral and Sabbath's Theater, Blood Meridian, and 
Underworld. He has also praised fantasy writer John Crowley as these 
writers' equal — and especially his novel Little, Big.



>From: MalignD at aol.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Bloom on Pynchon
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:09:50 EDT
>
>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'. >>
>