Pynchon's Children

[Monte Davis]

Well worth reading - thanks!

"Pynchon’s novels are full of happy endings, which range from minor
reconciliations and changes of tone (see the last 100 pages of Gravity’s
Rainbow), to family reunions (Vineland), gentle reversals of fortune
(everywhere), and full-blown utopias (Against The Day). We tend to think of
Pynchon ending his tales with a hammer about to drop—a sinister auctioneer
glaring at Oedipa in the last paragraph of The Crying of Lot 49, or a
rocket careering to earth as Gravity’s Rainbow winds down—but he keeps so
many plots in play, and introduces us to so many characters, that there are
many kinds of closure on offer in the novels, only a fraction of which take
place on the final page.

In Bleeding Edge, as in every other Pynchon novel, the background is full
of late modulations from gravity to grace..."


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> http://www.publicbooks.org/fiction/pynchons-children
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