James Wood On Pynchon's Characters

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall it, Wood doesn't differentiate
> between individual works in his judgment of Pynchon. For him, Pynchon
> has been a "hysterical realist" all along, always as incapable of creating
> characters one could care about.

Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49; V

http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2009/02/james-woods-best-books-since-1945-circa-1994.html