pynchon-l-digest V2 #10455

[Doug Millison]

"....Although his name has become a byword for postmodernism and
impenetrable prose, *Bleeding Edge *makes clearer than ever before what has
been true since the publication of *V.* half a century ago: Pynchon is a
writer with a profound, unwavering moral vision and an abiding commitment
to realism. Not the realism of a Balzac or a Howells, of course, but the
kind employed by Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor, the kind that forgoes
verisimilitude in favor of the fantastic and the grotesque in order to make
a point about the nature of reality--what is real and enduring, and what
isn't...."  http://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/02/pears-not-pixels
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