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

[Jon Lebkowsky]

He's writing in epic form, incorporating detailed cultural elements. As
with Joyce (esp Finnegans Wake), the reader has to work to get the meaning,
depth, and complexity of the writing. We're in an era of fast food readers
and reviewers, hence the underwhelm in some of the reviews we're seeing. I
agree that Pynchon's work will be better understood and appreciated in
time. Meanwhile, he seems to be having a great time.


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>wrote:

> >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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