Careful readers know that
his career spun downhill after the magnificent Gravity's Rainbow. An
insightful writer has commented that, hiding out in California, he
“spent 20 years smoking pot and watching TV.” His latest effort
is almost a cartoon of his previous writing – meticulously
describing by brand name the hippest purses, arcane Manhattan
locations and details of the web that this 70-something would have
struggled mightily to learn in order to stay hip – if by chance he
was really doing his own work.
One theory is that during
that lapse, others started taking over the writing that appears under
his byline – and who's to say no? Since Pynchon never appears in
public, he could in fact appear to be living forever.
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