Pynchons Problem

[Mark Kohut]

I do not think I will read this review becuase these remarks are out of his ass.
 
The question is character creation, then and now, (among other things)  and what vision of men and women
in the world, their world, the writers have. 
 
Plenty of assholes want women to "like them"....[no reference] and
many 'male triumphalists" get liked by lots of women...as readers. 
 
 
 
 


On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:27 PM, David Morris wrote:

> I hope you're joking.
> I think this reviewer is an ass.
> 
> On Sunday, March 11, 2012, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > here it is, my problem with Pynchon in essence from a description of a NYRB review of Houellbec's new novel
> >
> > "Postwar novelists—Updike, Mailer—were male triumphalists. Their successors—Franzen, Shteyngart—have overcorrected. They want women to like them. Their men are losers."
> > that's what's happened to Pynchon, too
> >
> > rich
> >
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