The Influence of TRP on Alan Moore

[j e l]

https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/alan-moore-hans-ulrich-obrist-2013/

HUO: How would you describe the influence of Thomas Pynchon on your work?

AM: I found Thomas Pynchon through Richard Fariña. If I’ve got this right,
Pynchon was a close friend or disciple of Fariña’s. I checked out V, which
I found really engrossing and extraordinary. I liked how he was telling a
kind of metaphysical mystery story, and the richness of his thinking and
his language. How he wasn’t afraid to compress quite unusual or fragile
ideas into these marvellously dense pages, and relying upon the reader to
do a large amount of the work in decoding them. I started to formulate my
idea that any successful work of art, inevitably, only happens in some kind
of conceptual space between the artist and the audience. The more work the
audience has to do, the more they will enjoy the piece of art in question.
With a lot of modern movies, the viewer is not asked to be part of the
process. Increasingly, they’re encouraged not to bother about plot or
structure as long as there is a constant stream of sensation, explosions,
special effects. For me, this is not what art is about.

--jel