A Cabinet of Curiosities

[Ya Sam]

That's the way AtD is characterised by one more German reviewer. He draws 
paralels with 'The Oxen of the Sun' Ulysses chapter, meaning that  similarly 
to Joyce who listed different narrative styles and examples of diction in 
this chapter, outlining 'the History of the English Language from its 
beginning till the contemporaneity of 1906 Dublin '  Pynchon gives us 'a 
short History of Genre literature'. Among the authors whom Pynchon seems 'to 
imitate and spoof' the following are mentioned: Jules Verne, H.P. Lovecraft, 
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack Williamson, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, 
Zane Grey.


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