Pynchon

>>8504886
I was gonna make a thread about this but I may as well post it here:

Does anyone know what age Pynch started writing? Because I'm reading The Small Rain write now and HOLY SHIT is it sophomoric. Like it's hard to believe this is the same person that wrote Gravity's Rainbow. Like it's actually kind of uplifting to think that it's possible to go from that bad to that good in that space of time.

>>8504902
Small Rain by Pynchon?. not by Madeleine l'Engle? I know Pynchon is about 79, pushing 80. But he seems to me like he's always been pushing literature no matter when he started writing.

>>8504919
Yes, Pynchon. The first story in Slow Learner.
Wikipedia tells me he wrote it when he was around 22, but I'd love to know how long he'd been writing before that.

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>>8504908
non-ants version

>>8504921
Thats over 50 years ago. He must have been stretching his legs.

>>8504927
His most renown of works, tehee.
Depending on when you frequented /lit/, you might be privy to say any of them could be considered his opus; for me, it went vineland, mason&dixon, bleeding edge, inherent vice & then gravities rainbow.

is there anything wrong with going the rest of your life only reading Pynchon and no other, but fully understanding all of Pynchons works?

Yes.

>>8505082
not at all mate. he's just one of those writers

>>8504902
Published in March of 59, so figure he wrote it at 21. What matters is that V. came out just four years later. That's a lot of ground to cover in a very short time, anon.

>>8505270
Is it a short story or a novel?

>>8505389
Which? The Small Rain is a short story; V. is a novel