Dale Peck reviews Pynchon

[David Morris]

This guy is an ass:

" When Gravity’s Rainbow appeared in 1973, it achieved instant totemic
status, rendering Pynchon one of America’s most charitably—i.e.,
poorly—read contemporary novelists, by which I mean that the
significance ascribed to his famously hyperbolic evocations of entropy
and paranoia and ungovernable paraphilias, of mathematics and
metempsychosis and other phenomena both mundane and mystical, so far
exceeds what actually exists on the page that uninitiated readers
often feel they’re being punk’d by the literary establishment. At
least part of the establishment agrees: though Pynchon won the
National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow, the advisory board of the
Pulitzer Prize overturned the decision of its own judges, calling the
novel “overwritten” and “unreadable.”

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
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> http://dalepeck.com/exclusives/heresy-of-truth.html