Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Mark:
> And, yes "V." is a teeth-cutter, BUT I say it has, like teeth embedded behind one's baby teeth, 
> many key lifetime themes, tropes, ideas, etc. Hereros. Historical quest. Animate/Inanimate. Sacred/Profane. 
> Loose but wide overarching metaphors--V.; structure--parts are akin if not named so-- and more...

Agreed. I think the 25-year-old Pynchon put everything he knew into his first book; and later he figured
out what to do with it...

I'm partly kidding, here, but only partly: V. contains some very strong writing - in particular "Mondaugen's Story" -
and a lot of important ideas that Pynchon developed further in his later novels, but it is also a wildly uneven novel, 
and some of the New York-material (especially all the stuff about Profane and his women) is frankly a bit 
embarrassing. Still, I love that old novel with a vengeance.
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