Does Pynchon Produce Only 'Masterworks'?

[David Morris]

People are going to get bore with this conversation, but here goes anyway.

V's structure kept changing centers, in locations, times and main
characters, constantly.  The most constantly changing character being the
many incarnations of V. and her myriad of different stories and locations.
And one's not too sure that they are one being until the end (and even then
they can hardly be literally so).  But even with all these characters and
stories, nothing ever seems extraneous.

VL by contrast, is mostly a chronological story centered around one family
with numerous flashbacks and a few secondary characters and their stories
and histories.  Seems pretty straightforward to me.


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:

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> << 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. >>
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> I'm going way out on a limb here, obviously, but I would say Vineland
> strikes me as being more imaginatively structured than V., and maybe closer
> structure-wise to GR than is V. But obviously neither book can rival GR.
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