![]() ![]() The various quests for "V." all of them substitutes for the pursuit of love, are interwoven fantastically, and the coherence thus achieved The first novel, "V." was a designed indictment of its own comic elaborateness. ![]() And the uses to which he puts them are very much the same. Like John Barth and Joseph Heller, his security with philosophical and psychological concepts, his anthropological intimacy with the off-beat-these evidences of extraordinary talent in the first novel continue to display themselves in Pynchon's technical virtuosity, his adaptations of the apocalyptic-satiric modes of Melville, Conrad, and Joyce, of Faulkner, Nathanael West, and Nabokov, the saturnalian inventiveness he shares with contemporaries Homas Pynchon's second novel, "The Crying of Lot 49," reads like an episode withheld from his first, the much-acclaimed "V.," Embattled Underground By RICHARD POIRIER The Crying of Lot 49 By Thomas Pynchon ![]()
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