James Wood On Pynchon's Characters

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Mon Nov 9 06:09:29 CST 2009



Thanks, Dave.  Is this the one positive gesture Wood has made in Pynchon's direction?

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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
>



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