Fernando Del Paso

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from a recent LA Times review of Del Paso's News from the Empire:

"What happens," writes the Mexican novelist Fernando del Paso, "when
an author can't escape history? . . . what can you do . . . when you
don't want to avoid history, but do want to achieve poetry?" The
question is rhetorical, and Del Paso has an answer waiting. "Perhaps
the solution," he writes, is "to try and reconcile everything that
might be true in history using the exactitude available to invention.
In other words, instead of pushing history to the side, place it
alongside invention, alongside allegory, and even mix it together with
some wild fantasy."

Is this not a fair description of Pynchon's writing?

hope to begin News from the Empire shortly
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