>in the middle of reading a Pynchon kino >the narrative suddenly shifts to an irrelevant character doing some dull shit for 70 pages
>>25424468>the narrative suddenly shifts to an irrelevant character doing some dull shit for 70 pagesHOLY FUCKING KINOOOOOO
>>25424468>the narrative suddenly shifts to gay cuckoldry faggotry for 100 pagesClassic Pynch!
>>25424468What do you call that style of writing, where the author ostensibly writes a novel, but it's really a collection of short stories loosely tied together to justify it being one story? Gene Wolfe does this too.
>>25424468hyukhyukhyuk!
>>25424468you're talking about mondaugen's story? easily one of the best parts of v., enjoy it. definitely the most unrelated though, still a beautiful story that contributes to the theme of the book if not the storyline.>>25425297a short story collection that's interconnected is a fix-up but i'm not sure if that's what pynchon or most postmodern writers go for. i thino they just do a nonlinear, scrambled-up storyline you have to piece together.
>>25425297fake novel
>>25425297Very autobiographically inspired
>>25425297Joycean
>>25425297Episodic
>>25425297normie fodder
>>25425297Menippean Satire
