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May 20, 2021
1 minute
JESSE WALKER
homas Pynchon’s reputation as a “difficult” writer may be exaggerated—some of his shorter fictions are pretty accessible—but it isn’t exactly and are rich, encyclopedic, and frequently funny works of antiauthoritarian literature, but they’re also dense, complex, experimental, at times deliberately confusing, and prone to extended tangents. Pynchon’s postmodern doorstops are about as far as you could get from the spare simplicity of a Hank Williams song.
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