Two Encyclopedias, Fat and Thin

[Chris Broderick]

Robin sez:

And as expansive 
as AtD might be, the plot-lines do gather up, the 
stories' collusions do form a recognizable shape

So I say:

Which is one of the most alarming things that I took
from many of the reviews of AtD.  People were more
than willing to accept that GR was a less than
conventionally plotted novel that still had an
overarching shape & structure (albeit, one that may
have taken more than one reading to limn), but many
reviewers seemed to assume that AtD didn't have a
similar architecture.  IMHO, AtD is, despite its
length, as deeply structured as any of Pynchon's other
works.  And maybe it's because I warmed up by reading
GR & VL (or maybe because, unlike most reviewers, I
had the luxury of a month & a half to read AtD), but I
had far fewer instances of getting lost in the shuffle
in AtD than I did in first readings of his other big
novels.

-Chris


 
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