At what point does Pynchon just further tarnish his reputation and legacy by cranking out these underwhelming mediocrities like Bleeding Edge and Shadow Ticket?Isn't it better for him not to publish anything than these books which are leagues worse than Vineland, a book that tarnished his reputation and legacy to at least some extent when it was published in 1990?
Maybe he's more concerned with doing what a writer does (write) than he is about his legacy. Your gay preoccupation with his reputation and legacy is the same ugly side of the coin where people get obsessed with writers rather than their works
>>24867860But, this is about his work.
Explain what's bad about it.
It's shit but at least it's better than Bleeding Edge.
>>24867865it's about his reputation and legacy as considered through his work. It should just be about his work, his books as books
>>24867847Once you write a true masterpiece (and Pynchon has written several), you can't really "tarnish" your literary legacy by writing shit. You can only really tarnish it at that point by publicly committing heinous acts, and a lot of the time not even then.
Probably his legacy at this point to him is ensuring his hippie NEET son won't ever have to get a job and leave the apartment when he croaks
>>24867870because it's shorter
>>24868375>shorter=betterbig if true
>>24867847Vineland is fine, but everything needs to be Gravity's Rainbow
>>24867860>people get obsessed with writersI think in many ways, studying the works is a means of studying the author. In the end, the obsession with the author may be the ultimate goal.
>>24868937sounds retarded to me but you do you
>>24867847He probably just enjoys writing, and getting money to do so is a nice bonus.
I unironically believe that, right after Against the Day (particularly when it wasn’t greatly received), he watched everyone fanboy and fawn over Cormac McCarthy due to the success of the movie “No Country for Old Men” and that kind of broke him a little bit. He’s been chasing the general popular audience success ever since for his legacy and he just can’t hit it. I think it bothers him that he’s not going to be widely remembered as the GOAT of his generation and thinks McCarthy stole it from him due to his success in movies.
>>24868937good analysis, i’m not sure why redditors will get upset about it
>>24867847Nothing bad about Shadow Ticket
>>24867847Any ideas why it received so poorly?
