Esposito's review of Wood's review of AtD

[Ya Sam]

Watch out for my review of Esposito's review of Wood's review of AtD :)

James Wood's review is in 'The New Republic' and it is, alas, subscription 
only.


'When I found out that James Wood had reviewed Against the Day,** my first 
reaction was, of course, to wonder just how much this one-man "hysterical 
realism" wrecking crew would hate it. True to form, in his 6,000 word review 
he did eventually get around to arguing that Against the Day is not a good 
book, but, and I think this is important, unlike most critics who panned 
Pynchon's novel, he at least demonstrated an awareness of (some of) the 
book's virtues and (some of) Pynchon's intentions.' ...

Read the rest

http://www.conversationalreading.com/2007/03/friday_column_j.html#comments

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