pynchon mention in franzen interview

* "both authors [delillo & pynchon] were models for me for a long time. it's the way they, permanently threatened by tv and the atomic bomb, tried to picture a social totality as perfect as possible while keeping an ironic distance to the world we're living in. one has to be smart to do this, and self-confident, but for me this playful postmodern irony wasn't enough anymore. i wanted a novel in which ..." --- from this week's 'der spiegel', p. 151, own translation.


did this dude ever read vineland? kfl ***