Repost: "The Big One"

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Paul Mackin schrieb:
 
> I personally don't GET why everything in P's oeuvre needs to be tied > together in AtD.
 
 
Simple guess: It's meant to be P's last book. 
 
And may it be like that! 
 
While I have a certain affection for Vineland, I think that in both,
M&D (read it three times) and AtD, Pynchon is merely a shadow 
(pun realized and accepted) of himself. The long sentences they
do not scan the way they used to. And the uncle-like humor sucks.
Before you now start to hyperventilate, please remember that it's not
uncommon to dislike the later works of an artist whose earlier works
you love. It's called the problem of the old-age-style (Altersstil).
 
Not too long ago somebody asked me offlist about my Pynchon-preferences.
Here they come:
 
1. GR
2. GR
3. VL
4. Col49
5. V
 
 
Vineland is where Pynchon comes closest to the poetology unfolded in the SL-intro.
It's also a pretty interesting novel for my generation.
 
Kai "Jesaja II.4" Lorentzen
 
 
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