The Influence of TRP on Alan Moore

[j e l]

V For Vendetta
by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

p.64
https://archive.org/details/v-for-vendetta-by-alan-moore-david-lloyd/page/64/mode/2up

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https://archive.org/details/v-for-vendetta-by-alan-moore-david-lloyd/page/269/mode/2up



On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM j e l <ssnomes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>