Does Pynchon Produce Only 'Masterworks'?

[David Morris]

Well my critique of VL's structure being unimaginitive has to do with
comparing it to GR & V (VL's predecessors).  COL49's structure wasn't really
inventive either, but its central themes were infinitely more developed than
VL's.

David Morris
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:

What really strikes me about your comments, though, is your critique of
Vineland's structure. I always thought it *was* interestingly, or at least
*elegantly* structured - the nested narratives, and those bits (working from
memory here) where a character is looking in the mirror and sees someone who
looks like someone else (Prairie/DL/Frenesi) and the narrative seems to move
through that mirror and out the other side, spools off into a differnet
timeframe, then pops out somewhere else, etc. A-and, I always (still do,
foax) thought the book was very cinematic, ripe for adaptation, even going
so far as considering how it might work as a children's book, maybe a comic
strip.... none of which bigs up its claims to 'genius' of course, but...
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