Pynchons Problem

[alice wellintown]

In its self-deprecating humorous reflections, the Slow Learner
Introduction admits that Pynchon was, like most American males (so
Pynchon sez), an immature jackass and that his characters were
invested with his chauvinistic attitudes.  While I admire the feminist
readings of GR, the feminism found there belongs to the critics and
not the author. The author turns with VL. And his turn is awkward.
Inherent Vice seems a novel written to appease Pynchon's wife and her
feminist friends. AGtD, however, is a parody of his earlier turn and
takes some revenge on his foolish surrender to the feminists.