The Best Of 2006
January, 2007
Against the Day is Thomas Pynchon's latest doorstopOne thing becomes immediately apparent in reading Thomas Pynchon's monumental new novel, Against the Day: No one else writes as he does. Pynchonian, like Gogolian or Kafkaesque, denotes a sui generis world, a place unique to the designs of its author. And what agrand place Pynchonia is. In a literary market increasingly defined by the diktats of moral fiction, Pynchon's playful caprice, intellectual vitality and exuberant imagination shine lik...
