James Wood On Pynchon's Characters

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:

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

"From way down the hall, a tiny head appears around a corner, a tiny
hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger." (GR, Pt. II, p.
199)

> 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