Once again (since we seem to love to argue about it): Thomas Pynchon modernist novelist!

[Mark Kohut]

http://conversationalreading.com/the-case-for-modernism? Pointing to thorough, 
smart review of Josipovici's new book on modernism. 

Modernism is a kind of anguished repudiation—"a response to the simplifications 
of the self and of life that Protestantism and the Enlightenment brought with 
them." Its intimacy lies in the stubborn effort, especially on the part of 
Modernist novelists, to render those little hesitations, those sieges of doubt, 
those a nxious questionings that beset us even as we attempt to construct some 
credible narrative of our lives.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703556604575502133666270428.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Personal: Such a perspective is why the latter-day 'social realists' are usually 
lacking for me....THINGS HAVE CHANGED and fiction
must know that.