V-2nd: Grasping....

[Mark Kohut]

Saul Bellow's first two novels, short "claustrophobic' Jamesian, Forster- influenced 'small' works...then AUGIE MARCH, "I go at life free-style"

John Barth's first two serious few-character novels. again, James, who?.......then SOT-WEED FACTOR

Pynchon's James, Hemingway-infused stories

Then
Kerouac's new style in ON THE ROAD

Nabokov's Road novel LOLITA

Heller's new absurdities in CATCH-22

V. the start of finding new tones, styles, which would not have happened without the above.

As usual, the best writers open everything before society does.