Anonymous
10/14/2025, 4:52:53 AM
No.24799152
>>24797419
It pains me to say it, because at some point it seemed like he was going to be reminded as one of the best novelists of his time, but Pynchon's shtick has aged a lot and I think he will fade into irrelevancy in the coming century. Maybe Mason & Dixon will survive, but the rest of his work is too stuck in a post WWII mindset, which has simply decoupled inexorably with the modern world. Pynchon is becoming a period writer, someone you read to get an idea of how people used to think.
It pains me to say it, because at some point it seemed like he was going to be reminded as one of the best novelists of his time, but Pynchon's shtick has aged a lot and I think he will fade into irrelevancy in the coming century. Maybe Mason & Dixon will survive, but the rest of his work is too stuck in a post WWII mindset, which has simply decoupled inexorably with the modern world. Pynchon is becoming a period writer, someone you read to get an idea of how people used to think.