AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?

[barbie gaze]

Pynchon's purpose, to replicate in fiction a society he regards as
depraved, and to undermine ordinary and common perceptions of that society
while masterfully erecting a labyrinthine structure riddled with
cul-de-sacs, dead ends, trap doors, fun-house reflections, experimentations
with genres and narratives and characters and forms, to undercut and
ironize, to draw from and sensational sources and give the lie to the
nostalgic revisonists, is achived in this work, AGtD. And, this puts him in
good company with Melville and Hawthorne and Lippard. Beneath the American
Renaissance, as Reynold's has shown, there is, if we take a "bottom-up"
approach, a culture that speaks to the depraved new world we live in now.
Pynchon is its most persistant, and most perceptive critic. Read Tom Wolfe
I Am Charlotte Simmons if you want it spoon fed like a Chinese broth before
the bubble, but to complain that Pynchon has not entertained you is to miss
the point. Why apply Wolfe to Pynchon? Apply Kafka to George Eliot? Apply
Milton to e.e. cummings? Pynchon is not, noit even in his sell-outs (IV),
trying to do what Wolfe does so well.
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