Birthday Boy TRP mentioned in this new book

[Erik T. Burns]

 *Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction*, by
Nick Ripatrazone
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/05/04/great-american-fiction-and-the-catholic-literary-imagination/


* Pynchon’s labyrinthine novels, with their codes and puzzles that lead
nowhere, on Ripatrazone’s telling reflect a sacramental imagination that
sees everything as — to use Dante’s word — polysemantic. In the quest to
interpret the apparent signs embedded in the world around us, we find layer
on layer of meaning, even if they lead us, like the letter V, in disparate
directions and so issue in no clear, unified vision. Just so does a lapsed
Catholic view the world: Taught to read the signs lying silently within the
order of existence, he nonetheless finds their author missing. *

(The book looks at TRP, DeLillo, McCarty, Erdrich and Morrison, according
to the review)
<https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/05/04/great-american-fiction-and-the-catholic-literary-imagination/>