So is he just shy or are they really out to get him?
On the other hand you might recognise the Pynchon name with his ‘appearances’ on a number of episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ with a paper bag over his head. Gravity’s Rainbow (1974) over 750 pages of mind-bending alternative metaphysics rubs your nose in the malevolent corporate links between the Nazi war machine and post-Watergate America while more recently, Against the Day (2006) is a labyrinth of half-forgotten and possibly pseudo pulp-genres which, over 1,000 pages long, might be about the extinction of the anarchist movement. The work of Thomas Pynchon, his name, his famous reclusiveness is bound up with the wave of postmodernist aesthetics which broke across America in the 1970s wiping out the agonies of modernist poetics, well, in the universities anyway.
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