So I’m a newbie to the world of Thomas Pynchon. Though I should know all about his accomplishments and such, I don’t. But I have stumbled upon the Wiki for the notoriously reclusive author. I don’t know why I swallowed the fly. In other words, I don’t know what brought me to him today, maybe it is Divine intervention. Maybe not, maybe it is my curiosity with/for American 20th Century Literature. Maybe I have some urge to debunk? Whatever.
I have read that Mr. Pynchon is releasing a new book in August 2009. Something about Chinatown the movie with LSD, with no Nicholson.(Inherent Vice is the title) For Real Do’ it is a Noir set in Los Angeles that is part Psychedelic all Pynchon or some such stuff. I might buy it if the mood strikes me, then again I might go and buy the complete works of Dickens off of Ebay.
Something about hypertextual belongs here…
Something about influences belongs here…
And some quotes from famous critics belongs here…or can be found here about Mason & Dixon: http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mason_%26_Dixon_Reviews
Overall I get quite bored with these newfangled approaches to the basic telling of a story. And O. Henry put it best when he said something about Historical Fiction as a genre. Though I can’t remember what it was.
Tags: 20th Century American Literature, Folly and Wisdom, Inherently Vile, O. Henry, Thomas Pynchon
