Pynchons Problem

[Bekah]

Well I doubt IV was written to appease anyone except TPR's own memories of "the beach in the days"  but I agree on all else.   One point,   IV was written after AtD - so AtD couldn't really have been written to take revenge for his surrender in IV.  Don't the women in IV seem mostly like beach bunnies and band groupies - aside from Wolfman's wife?  

AtD, otoh,  does a fine job with women - all sorts - loved them - some actually stand alone rather than being present only for some male's purposes.   M&D  didn't do too badly by women either - if I remember correctly -  and what about TCoL49?  That was his 2nd novel.  SL was a bit lame with the women though - 

Bekah - just my feminine o - 

On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:26 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> 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.