Pynchon, Thomas (Vol. 2) - Pynchon, Thomas 1937–
Pynchon, Thomas 1937–
An American novelist, Pynchon is the author of the pyrotechnical V. and Gravity's Rainbow, as well as the more subdued The Crying of Lot 49. He is considered to be one of the most original talents in the country today. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 19-20.)
A new sort of American novel seems to be emerging in the sixties. I am led to that conclusion by the appearance of a first novel, V., by Thomas Pynchon. It strikingly resembles another recent first novel, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, and it has a number of things in common with other first novels of the decade, including two excellent ones, Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, and Bruce J. Friedman's Stern. V. is raw and formless in comparison with those two, but it is powerful, ambitious, full of gusto, and overflowing with rich comic invention. Pynchon is a writer of enormous talent and potential….
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