ATD review

[Otto]

Against the Day

Anthony Macris, reviewer
December 15, 2006

In his most monumental novel, Thomas Pynchon casts a savage,
postmodern eye over contemporary life.
(...)
In a risk-averse literary publishing environment, Pynchon's Against
the Day, like Don DeLillo's Underworld, is a curio in itself, an
experimental novel gargantuan in scale yet given something resembling
mass-market treatment. This was once common enough, but nowadays the
appearance of these fractious (and often all-too-flawed) tomes have
become more freaks of nature than semi-routine literary events.
Pynchon's heir apparent, David Foster Wallace, has received similar
exposure, but it is questionable whether his comic epic Infinite Jest
has created a generational impact equivalent to Gravity's Rainbow.
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