Another tweet spam..Pynchon reading Chabon, opinion

[Monte Davis]

Hard to think of a better choice of reviewer among working novelists. Well done, MC, and thanks for sparing us more go-rounds on this point: 

"...one might well anticipate a claim to be advanced now that Pynchon’s characters are 'flat' because consciousness, in 'modernity,' is a Gödelian construct, because the Subject has been decentered, etc. In this anticipation one would, however, be mistaken. Pynchon’s best books—the string of masterpieces from Gravity’s Rainbow to Against the Day—abound with characters whose complex consciousnesses are rendered in rich and plausible detail, who have their hearts broken and break the reader’s heart as effectively and affectingly as any in twentieth-century literature. What Pynchon’s characters rarely do, perhaps, is undergo 'change' or 'epiphany,' uncommon experiences in lived life but encountered nearly as often in post-Chekhov literary fiction as tormented-yet-dashing thoracic surgeons in nurse romances."

(Well, I can dream, can't I?)

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Subject: Another tweet spam..Pynchon reading Chabon, opinion

doug eklund‏@dougieeklund8m
Pynchon is having a good chuckle over Chabon's Bleeding Edge review, guaranteed...
 
Another real smart reader on twitter, Ron Rosenbaum, sez Bleeding Edge is more political/polemical than most of P's work........he is liking it mostly
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