Pynchon, GR, M&D, Joyce, disappointment

[pynchonoid]

I'd like to read a sustained discussion of Joyce's
stories and Pynchon's, if it were written in a spirit
of exploration and discovery and not axe-grinding.

GR is exceptional, no doubt. So are each of Pynchon's
novels, imo.


> When the same elements reappear, then reappear again
> in less succesful 
> novels, a reader might reasonably re-assess.  GR
> made TP look like the greatest 
> thing since Joyce.  Subsequent novels reveal,
> perhaps, a very good writer and, 
> clearly, a very smart, interesting, and complex man
> who, nevertheless, may have 
> flaw and limitations as a writer. 

Can't agree that M&D is a come-down from GR, it moves
in its own way and offers pleasures that deepen with
each re-reading, of a piece with the novels that come
before.  

Against the Day makes that even more apparent as it
threads the other novels into its textual web, the way
M&D did for the previous novels a decade ago.
  

> There's nothing
> mean-spirited in that 
> assessment.






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