Can you find a female foil for Pynchon?

>Waves as a foil to Ulysses
>Zadie "literally who" Smith

Man, just stop posting and go back to tumblr

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>>8794116
>dfw fanboys still misconstrue DFW's place on /lit/

>>8794039
Toni Morrison desu

>>8794039
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

>>8794039
You can't force an inverse where there is none.
If there were a female trilogy it would be something like Middlemarch, The Waves, and Miss Macintosh, My Darling

>>8794900
>Middlemarch
Bad suggestion

>>8794835
Maybe.

Gertrude Stein is better than Virginia Woolf

>>8794039
Marguerite Yourcenar, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers

>>8794039
Neither of them are comparable to Pynchon. Their Is no female 'foil' to him

OP is just asking for someone who is famous for having opinions on him

This board should stop being so obsessed with gender of authors. But I guess ti mirrors what's unfortunatley going on in the literary world right now

>>8795011
My mum's better than your mum.

Does she have to be from the 70s? That would change everything.

>>8794911
I'll kill you.

Is White Teeth any good? My professor read some parts during his lectures and it seemed pretty shit to me.

White Teeth is okay, the last 50 pages or so ruined it for me.

>>8794039
Pynchon with a wig and fake tits.

>>8794276
What did he meme by this?

>>8794116
Zadie Smith is huge in contemporary literature. You may not like her, but calling her a "literally who" is just ridiculous.

>>8795594
why do you consider it huge?

>>8794039
Mrs Dalloway should be the foil for Ulysses

proposal for pynchon:
>James Tiptree Jnr

Margaret atwood for pynchon and substitute dana spiotta for zadie

Perfect foil to Pynchon is Dolores aka William Vollmann's female persona.

>>8795594
She's a shit novelist floated on the quality of her essays. But is her only purpose in life to get as much audience dick as possible?

>>8796308
>She's a shit novelist floated on the quality of her essays. But is her only purpose in life to get as much audience dick as possible?
Probably. So agreed, a good match for DFW.

Who would have been Zadie's Franzen had she killed herself? I think Franzen desu

>>8795466
Helen Steeply?

>>8795466
Finally! To be honest I was rather expecting someone to shoop one such, but /lit/ always has been a lazy broad.

>>8794900
>Miss Macintosh, My Darling
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>>8796311
DFW would have been jealous he didn't get to do it first. He would have been her Franzen.

>>8795373
Le Guin? She isn't wacky enough, but none of them is.

>>8794835
Not even remotely

>>8794039
Gertrude Stein

Helen DeWitt

>>8794039
I think Mrs. Dalloway would be a better equivalent to Ulysses (if there has to be one), even if The Waves is better, because it follows over a day the oddyssey of Clarissa Dalloway in the course of a day

I don't know of any woman that writes with Pynchon's ridiculously twisted narrative lines and goofy humor

Also, the only way Zadie Smith is somehow comparable to DFW is that they're both college writers whose thought is very wrought by academia and they love to show it off.

>>8800035
>the only way Zadie Smith is somehow comparable to DFW
They were in the same circle of writers, that's part of why there are a bunch of gifs of DFW and Zadie at literature festivals and things.

HP Blavatsky

>>8796693
>lazy broad
Anon I...

>>8800035
>goofy humor
If we're going by the british candy criterion, it could be that the only contender left is Joanne Rowling, oboy

Haven't read it but The Bell Jar is utterly memed as fuck and is hippy-dippy enough for Pynchon.

>>8801397
nope, the story is more like a normal person becoming mental after going through a Bret Easton Ellis book.

>>8795594

No. She's huge in lit lite. Books wi5h literary aspects written for soccer moms and teenage girls. She's hardly won any major awards and her book will likely have no lasting influence. SHe's not creative and hasn't pioneered any new prose techniques.

>>8801981
>muh plot
I was thinking more of the authors' ages and era being in common and their cult-like followings, hence my use of the word memed.

>>8803432
So she IS a perfect match for Infinite Jest

>>8795477
he was mocking Zadies african heritage, and the alpha bastard had the gaul to smirk when she turned around
truly /ourguy/

>>8794039
Miss McIntosh, My Darling
Pilgrimage
The Making of Americans

>>8795633
>>8800035
Ulysses overflows; preferring Mrs Dalloway of all the Woolf to compare it to makes sense but it's already choosing a particular aspect of Ulysses

Women aren't creative enough to write like Pynchon.

>>8805620
Pynchon isn't creative enough to write like Pynchon! He had weed!

>>8795034
yeah
and there's no male foil either, just imitators- same with rest of the list except dfw is the biggest imitator of all
>>8795383
yes but you can tell zadie was young when she wrote it, I think NW is her best

>>8799984
she's every 20th+ century western writer's mother and father and /lit/ doesn't appreciate her enough but no one does
>>8805620
you mean that badly on purpose? the word you're looking for is delusional, not creative semi jk, he's fine but overrated

>>8794859
Yeah I'd posit Carter as a viable option.

>>8795985
Atwood also interesting suggestion.

>>8807301
>she's every 20th+ century western writer's mother and father
>hasn't been read since the 50s
Nice try gramps.

why keep bumping this faggoty thread?

George Eliot, easily.

how about shelley jackson. I have not read her books but her name is jackson that's got to count for something

>>8794276
>>8805060
whats the the .gif taken from?

>>8810076
Some video of one of these
>>8800045