Review: Thomas Pynchon's "Bleeding Edge" (David Auerbach @ The American Reader)

[Carvill John]

>Very much agreed on the second quotation, although I suppose Auerbach could retreat behind “not IMMEDIATELY apparent.” If one thing above all else unites GR, M&D, AtD, and the flashback elements of V. and CoL49 and Vineland, it’s the continuity and contemporaneity of what was “urgent” in their epochs.
Yes. My own feeling has long been that the passage of time will surely see Pynchon's reputation improve. Right now, he's regarded as a cult author, notable only for post-modernist gimmicks and whacky conspiracy theories. Later - and I'm not willing or able to say when exactly, but of course it will be after he has passed away - he will (like Dickens, Hitchcock, etc. before him) be 'discovered' by the mainstream and will thus become more culturally 'important'. 

 		 	   		  
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