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When In 1989 Thomas Pynchon Came Out With His Fourth Novel After A 17-year Hiatus From Publishing, It Was Perhaps Not Without A Hint Of Irony That The New York Times Book Review Turned To Salman Rushdie For Commentary. Here Was An Author Forced Into Exile (literally To Save His Life) Reviewing The Work Of One Who Has Chosen His Own Exile (perhaps To Guard His Gift) - A Man Who Has Studiously Avoided Interviews And About Whom Little Is Known. The Horrific And Absurd Situation To Which Rushdie Found Himself Consigned Was Not Far From The Stuff Of Pynchon's Fiction, Where Readers Enter A World In Which The Grotesqueries And Banalities Of Modern Life Are Inescapable By Conventional Means. With His Extravagant Imagination And Wild Sense Of Humor, Pynchon Maintains A Revered Place In Postwar American Literature: Many Believe That His 1963 Novel V. Anticipated Much Of The Most Advanced Philosophical And Literary-critical Reflection That Would Follow In The Next 20 Years.^ Judith Chambers's Comprehensive Study Of This Enigmatic Writer Outlines A Definite Progression In His Work, Identifying His Early Short Stories As More Aesthetic Than His Later Work. With V. And The Crying Of Lot 49 (196

Author

Chambers, Judith

Publisher

New York: Twayne Publishers ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805739602

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities