from an article in the Korea Herald probably yesterday

[Mark Kohut]

When Marxist scholar Fredric Jameson traveled to Korea in the late 1990s, I found him to be just as generous and tolerant as Eagleton. He deeply impressed me when he said that in his opinion, Thomas Pynchon was one of history's best writers. I was pleased because Pynchon was the writer who abhorred both militant Marxism and corrupt capitalism and wrote, "Underneath, both are part of the same creeping horror." Yet Jameson did not hesitate to acknowledge the importance of Pynchon as a writer.