Tom Pynchon is back in form, the only problem being his growing predictability-- since all polymaths know everything , they tend to think alike. Against The Day, is, among many other things, a gloriously bemused send-up of the unwanted homage paid Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon by Hollywood, His Dark Materials and The Baroque Cycle. It interlineates Pynchon's take on Boys Own fiction and the hard edged neorealism of Blood Meridian. Taking 1,085 pages to parodize a pair of novels approaching 4,000 may seem a dubious literary bargain, but so far it's an absolute hoot.There's no extra charge for insinuating Godel's view of circular time into the story with the eerie clarity.
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I'm pleased to see you found Pynchon's hidden madness in Against the Day!
Posted by: John Burgess | July 10, 2007 at 12:19 PM