Odds of another Pynchon novel

[John Bailey]

That's not how publishing works, though, right? Authors don't get to
say "these novels are for these folks and these are for those."
Publishers want you to write for the audience you have, or might
build, not the people who won't like your other writings. If you use
pseudonyms, perhaps, but where's the economic value in writing for two
different markets under the same name? (I'm aware that some writers
used to be able to get away with this, but I don't know of many today.
J. K. Rowling has had a go at it).



On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed. So what can we make of this? The California books plus Bleeding
> Edge, or what we might call the shorter works, are written in a very
> different style, and, if we apply my simple rhetorical triangle, and the
> idea of distance, we can speculate that the shorter works, sometimes called
> Pynchon-Lite or whatever, were composed for a different audience, dare I say
> market?
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>
>> Religious and mythical vs. political forces? The
>> political/economical/technological aspect has always been part of it ("I
>> need my night's blood, my funding (...)"). But yes, the shorter novels are
>> more overtly political and the "Gnostic" aspect is toned down. THEY are more
>> concretely identified with government agency -- or, more to the point, the
>> agency of hidden forces within and outside the government (e.g. the cabals
>> who brought us Paperclip, Iran-Contra and Latin American death squads).
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 16.06.2015 um 00:56 schrieb Jerome Park:
>>>
>>> They are tools that can be discarded. But what are the forces that use
>>> them? Brock has his funding cut, not by anything mysterious,  insidious,
>>> or monstrous, but by  government agency. Windust is a tool of government
>>> agency and its cumbersome and often ineffectual ventures with
>>> multinational business and agency.
>>>
>>> In contrast, in GR, the monstrous and insidious forces are invisible and
>>> mysterious, beyond the comprehension of, let alone, the reach of any
>>> coordinated counter cultural resistance.  The force is, for lack of a
>>> better term, as Dwight Eddins so artfully and elequantly describes it, a
>>> Gnostic Force. This force is born from Pynchon's readings of Adams and
>>> is the driving force or theme that makes V. a masterpiece first novel.
>
>
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