Pynchon's back catalogue

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:26 AM, John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Pynchon's later work makes an amazing attempt to resolve the
> personal experience vs research thing - AtD is a world historical
> novel in which the personal experience of research is foregrounded -
> it's clearly written by someone who has only read about the places,
> events, lives in question and whose experience of reading is conveyed
> by stylistically referring to the way these histories were
> represented... especially in the non-'historical' forms of writing
> that reveal so much more than official histories. Pynchon must love
> the Boys Own Adventure, the noir, the spy romance etc. These
> 'secondary sources' exist have as much affective weight as other kinds
> of personal encounter.

There are even some mistakes.  Whereas he reportedly walked The Line for M&D ...