Editing Thomas Pynchon (section)

==Influence==
===Precursors===
Pynchon's novels refer overtly to writers as disparate as [[Henry Adams]] (in ''V.'', p.&nbsp;62), [[Jorge Luis Borges]] (in ''Gravity’s Rainbow'', p.&nbsp;264), [[Deleuze and Guattari]] (in ''Vineland'', p.&nbsp;97),<ref name="Gazi 2016">{{cite journal|last=Gazi|first=Jordan|title=On Deleuze and Guattari's ''Italian Wedding Fake Book'': Pynchon, Improvisation, Social Organisation, and Assemblage|journal=Orbit: A Journal of American Literature|date=2014|volume=4|number=2|url=https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/442/|access-date=June 14, 2021|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614012043/https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/442/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Emily Dickinson]] (in ''Gravity’s Rainbow'', pp.&nbsp;27–8), [[Umberto Eco]] (in ''Mason & Dixon'', p.&nbsp;559),<ref name="Logan 1998">{{cite journal|last=Logan|first=William|title=Pynchon in the Poetic|journal=Southwest Review|date=1998|volume=83|number=4|pages=424–37|jstor=43471943|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43471943|access-date=June 13, 2021|archive-date=June 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613000632/https://www.jstor.org/stable/43471943|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] (in ''Vineland'', p.&nbsp;369), "[[Gerard Manley Hopkins|Hopkins]], [[T. S. Eliot]], [[Giorgio de Chirico|di Chirico’s]] novel ''[[Hebdomeros]]''" (in ''V.'', p.&nbsp;307), [[William March]],{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} [[Vladimir Nabokov]] (in ''The Crying of Lot 49'', p.&nbsp;120), [[Patrick O'Brian]] (in ''Mason & Dixon'', p.&nbsp;54), [[Ishmael Reed]] (in ''Gravity’s Rainbow'', p.&nbsp;558), [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] (in ''Gravity’s Rainbow'', p.&nbsp;97 f) and [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] (in ''V.'', p.&nbsp;278 f), and to a heady mixture of iconic religious and philosophical sources.<ref name="Fahey 1977">{{cite journal|last=Fahey|first=Joseph|title=Thomas Pynchon's ''V.'' and Mythology|journal=Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction|date=1977|volume=18|number=3|pages=5–18|doi=10.1080/00111619.1977.10690141|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00111619.1977.10690141?journalCode=vcrt20|access-date=June 14, 2021|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404015236/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00111619.1977.10690141?journalCode=vcrt20|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Safer 1983">{{cite journal|last=Safer|first=Elaine M.|title=John O. Stark, ''Pynchon's Fictions: Thomas Pynchon and the Literature of Information'' (Book Review)|journal=The Yearbook of English Studies|date=1983|volume=13|page=356|doi=10.2307/3508174|jstor=3508174|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/e1a35856c5b90af26dec7108f9f1bec0/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1817743|access-date=June 14, 2021|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614012044/https://www.proquest.com/openview/e1a35856c5b90af26dec7108f9f1bec0/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1817743|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="McClure 2007">{{cite book|last=McClure|first=John A.|title=Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison|date=2007|publisher=University of Georgia Press|page=38|jstor=j.ctt46n5bh|isbn=978-0-8203-3660-2|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n5bh|access-date=June 14, 2021|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614012040/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n5bh|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Smith 2014">{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Jared|title=All Maps Were Useless – Resisting Genre and Recovering Spirituality in Pynchon's ''Against the Day''|journal=Orbit: A Journal of American Literature|date=2014|volume=2|number=2|url=https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/471/|access-date=June 14, 2021|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614012043/https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/471/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Critics have made comparisons of Pynchon's writing with works by [[Rabelais]],<ref name="Mendelson 1976">{{cite journal|last=Mendelson|first=Edward|title=Encyclopedic Narrative: From Dante to Pynchon|journal=MLN Comparative Literature|date=1976|volume=91|number=6|pages=1267–75|doi=10.2307/2907136|jstor=2907136|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2907136|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624222425/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2907136|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Donoghue 2014">{{cite book|last=Donoghue|first=William|title=Mannerist Fiction: Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon|date=2014|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-4801-2|url=https://utorontopress.com/us/mannerist-fiction-3|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204050659/https://utorontopress.com/us/mannerist-fiction-3|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Cervantes]],<ref name="Mendelson 1976" /><ref name="Holdsworth 1988">{{cite journal|last=Holdsworth|first=Carole|title=Cervantine Echoes in Early Pynchon|journal=Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America|date=1988|volume=8|number=1|pages=47–53|doi=10.3138/cervantes.8.1.047|s2cid=190326661 |url=https://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/artics88/holdswor.htm|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621045154/https://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/artics88/holdswor.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Laurence Sterne]],<ref name="Battestin 1997">{{cite journal|last=Battestin|first=M.C.|title=Review: Pynchon, North and South|journal=Sewanee Review|date=1997|volume=105|number=3|pages=lxxvi–lxxviii|jstor=27548359|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27548359|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625051415/https://www.jstor.org/stable/27548359|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Stonehill 1988">{{cite book|last=Stonehill|first=Brian|author-link=Brian Stonehill|title=The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon|date=1988|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|jstor=j.ctv4rfsgd|isbn=978-1-5128-0732-5|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv4rfsgd|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625031921/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv4rfsgd|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Edgar Allan Poe]],<ref name="Lenz 1991">{{cite journal|last=Lenz|first=William E.|title=Poe's ''Arthur Gordon Pym'' and the Narrative Techniques of Antarctic Gothic|journal=CEA Critic|date=1991|volume=53|number=3|pages=30–8|jstor=44377065|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44377065|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625000427/https://www.jstor.org/stable/44377065|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Hashhozheva 2008">{{cite journal|last=Hashhozheva|first=Galena|title=The Mittelwerke: Site–Para-site–Non-site|journal=Pynchon Notes|date=2008|issue=54–5|pages=137–53|url=https://pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/issue/259/info/|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201311/https://pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/issue/259/info/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]],<ref name="Min 2003">{{cite journal|last=Min|first=Hye Sook|title=The Pyncheons of ''The House of the Seven Gables'': Questing after Thomas Pynchon|journal=Journal of English and American Studies|date=2003|volume=2|pages=121–33}}</ref><ref name="Madsen 2008">{{cite book|last=Madsen|first=Deborah Lea|chapter=Pynchon and the Tradition of American Romance|chapter-url=https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:92020|editor-last=Schaub|editor-first=T.H.|title=Approaches to Teaching Thomas Pynchon's ''The Crying of Lot 49'' and Other Works|url=https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Approaches-to-Teaching-World-Literature/Approaches-to-Teaching-Pynchon-s-The-Crying-of-Lot-49-and-Other-Works|date=2008|publisher=Modern Language Association, New York|pages=25–30|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201743/https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Approaches-to-Teaching-World-Literature/Approaches-to-Teaching-Pynchon-s-The-Crying-of-Lot-49-and-Other-Works|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Herman Melville]],<ref name="Mendelson 1976" /><ref name="Palmeri 2012">{{cite book|last=Palmeri|first=Frank|title=Satire in Narrative: Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon| date=2012|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0292741508}}</ref> [[Charles Dickens]],<ref name="Poirier 1975">{{cite journal|last=Poirier|first=Richard|title=The Importance of Thomas Pynchon|journal=Twentieth Century Literature|date=1975|volume=21|number=2|pages=151–62|doi=10.2307/440705|jstor=440705|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/440705|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625025301/https://www.jstor.org/stable/440705|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Logan 2009">{{cite book|last=Logan|first=William|chapter=Pynchon in the Poetic|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/loga14732-022/html|title=Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue|date=2009|publisher=Columbia University Press|pages=221–33|doi=10.7312/loga14732-022|isbn=9780231147323|url=http://cup.columbia.edu/book/our-savage-art/9780231147323|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202152/http://cup.columbia.edu/book/our-savage-art/9780231147323|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Joseph Conrad]],<ref name="Green 1982">{{cite journal|last=Green|first=Martin|title=''The Crying of Lot 49'': Pynchon's Heart of Darkness|journal=Pynchon Notes|date=1982|issue=8|pages=30–8|doi=10.16995/pn.458|url=https://pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/article/id/2504/|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202101/https://pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/article/id/2504/|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Cooley 1993">{{cite journal|last=Cooley|first=Ronald W.|title=The Hothouse or the Street: Imperialism and Narrative in Pynchon's ''V.''|journal=Modern Fiction Studies|date=1993|volume=39|number=2|pages=307–25|doi=10.1353/mfs.0.0354|jstor=26284217|s2cid=162401378|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26284217|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625030317/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26284217|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Thomas Mann]],<ref name="Smith 1990">{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Evans Lansing|title=The Arthurian Underworld of Modernism: Thomas Mann, Thomas Pynchon, Robertson Davies|journal=Arthurian Interpretations|date=1990|volume=4|number=2|pages=50–64|jstor=27868683|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27868683|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625030233/https://www.jstor.org/stable/27868683|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Spiridon 2013">{{cite journal|last=Spiridon|first=Monica|title=Holy Sinners: Narrative Betrayal and Thematic Machination in Thomas Mann's and Thomas Pynchon's novels|journal=Neohelicon|date=2013|volume=40|pages=199–208|doi=10.1007/s11059-013-0174-0|s2cid=161974352|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11059-013-0174-0|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630040941/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11059-013-0174-0|url-status=live}}</ref> [[William S. Burroughs]],<ref name="Hume 2000">{{cite journal|last=Hume|first=Kathryn|title=Books of the Dead: Postmortem Politics in Novels by Mailer, Burroughs, Acker, and Pynchon|journal=Modern Philology|date=2000|volume=97|number=3|pages=417–44|doi=10.1086/492868|s2cid=153989943|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/492868|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202900/https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/492868|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cooper 1983">{{cite book|last=Cooper|first=Peter L.|title=Signs and Symptoms: Thomas Pynchon and the Contemporary World|date=1983|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0520045378}}</ref> [[Ralph Ellison]],<ref name="Cooper 1983" /><ref name="Witzling 2008">{{cite book|last=Witzling|first=David|title=Everybody's America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism|date=2008|publisher=Routledge|doi=10.4324/9780203479681|isbn=9780203479681|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203479681/everybody-america-david-witzling|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200619/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203479681/everybody-america-david-witzling|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Patrick White]],<ref name=hospitalbook>{{cite book|last1=Hospital|first1=Janette Turner|title=Collected Stories: 1970 To 1995|date=1995|pages=361–2}}</ref><ref name="Burdett 2001">{{cite journal|last=Burdett|first=Lorraine|title=Synthetics Surveillance and Sarsaparilla: Patrick White and the New Gossip Economy|journal=Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature|date=2001|volume=Special conference issue: Australian Literature in a Global World edited by Wenche Ommundsen and Tony Simoes da Silva|url=https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10153|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200717/https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10153|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Toni Morrison]].<ref name="McClure 2007" /><ref name="Schell 2014">{{cite journal|last=Schell|first=Robert|title=Engaging Foundational Narratives in Morrison's ''Paradise'' and Pynchon's ''Mason & Dixon''|journal=College Literature|date=2014|volume=41|number=3|pages=69–94|doi=10.1353/lit.2014.0029|jstor=24544601|s2cid=143028097|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24544601|access-date=June 20, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624214842/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24544601|url-status=live}}</ref>

Pynchon's work also has similarities with [[modernist]] writers who wrote long novels dealing with large [[metaphysical]] or [[political]] issues, such as [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', [[E. M. Forster]]'s ''[[A Passage to India]]'', [[Wyndham Lewis]]'s ''[[The Apes of God]]'', [[Robert Musil]]'s ''[[The Man Without Qualities]]'' and [[John Dos Passos]]'s [[U.S.A. (trilogy)|''U.S.A.'' trilogy]].<ref name="chambersbook" /><ref name="peirce1982">{{cite journal|last1=Peirce|first1=Carol Marshall|title=Pynchon's ''V.'' and Durrell's ''Alexandria Quartet'': A Seminar in the Modern Tradition|journal=Pynchon Notes|date=1982|volume=8|pages=23–29}}</ref><ref name="porush1994">{{cite journal|last1=Porush|first1=David|title="The Hacker We Call God": Transcendent Writing Machines in Kafka and Pynchon|journal=Pynchon Notes|date=1994|volume=34–35|pages=129–47}}</ref><ref name="tannerbook" /><ref name="brook1983">{{cite journal|last1=Brook|first1=Thomas|title=What's the Point? On Comparing Joyce and Pynchon|journal=Pynchon Notes|date=1983|volume=11|pages=44–48}}</ref> A strong influence from [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s ''[[The Real Life of Sebastian Knight]]'' on Pynchon's first novel has been noted. ''[[V.]]'' resembles Nabokov's novel in plot, character, narration and style, and the title alludes directly to Nabokov's narrator "V." in ''The Real Life of Sebastian Knight''.<ref name="sweeney2008" /> Pynchon also outlines the influence on his own early fiction of literary works by [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Henry Miller]], [[Saul Bellow]], [[Herbert Gold]], [[Philip Roth]], [[Norman Mailer]], [[John Buchan]] and [[Graham Greene]], and non-fiction works by [[Helen Waddell]], [[Norbert Wiener]] and [[Isaac Asimov]].<ref name=pynchon1984 />

===Legacy===
Pynchon's work has been cited as an influence and inspiration by many writers, among them [[Elfriede Jelinek]] (who translated ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' into German), [[David Foster Wallace]], [[William T. Vollmann]], [[Richard Powers]], [[Steve Erickson]], [[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]], [[Neal Stephenson]], [[Dave Eggers]], [[William Gibson]], [[T. C. Boyle]], [[Salman Rushdie]], [[Alan Moore]], and [[Tommaso Pincio]] (whose pseudonym is an Italian rendering of Pynchon's name).<ref>{{multiref2
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Thanks to his influence on Gibson and Stephenson in particular, Pynchon became one of the progenitors of [[cyberpunk]] fiction; a 1987 essay in ''[[Spin magazine|Spin]]'' magazine by [[Timothy Leary]] explicitly named ''Gravity's Rainbow'' as the "Old Testament" of cyberpunk, with Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'' and its sequels as the "New Testament". Though the term "cyberpunk" did not become prevalent until the early 1980s, since Leary's article many readers have retroactively included ''Gravity's Rainbow'' in the genre, along with other works—[[Samuel R. Delany]]'s ''[[Dhalgren]]'' and many works of [[Philip K. Dick]]—which seem, in hindsight, to anticipate cyberpunk styles and themes. The [[encyclopedic]] nature of Pynchon's novels also led to some attempts to link his work with the [[hypertext fiction]] movement of the 1990s.<ref name=page2002>{{cite book|last1=Page|first1=Adrian|editor1-last=Bissell|editor1-first=Elizabeth B|title=The Question of Literature: The Place on the Literary in Contemporary Theory'|date=2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5744-1|chapter=Towards a poetics of hypertext fiction}}</ref> [[Ian Rankin]], author of the [[Inspector Rebus]] mystery novels, called encountering Pynchon in college "a revelation": "Pynchon seemed to fit the model I was learning of literature as an extended code or grail quest. Moreover, he was like a drug: as you worked out one layer of meaning, you quickly wanted to move to the next. He wrote action novels about spies and soldiers which also happened to be detective stories and bawdy romps. His books were picaresquely post-modern and his humour was Marxian (tendance: Groucho). On page six of ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]'', the name Quackenbush appears, and you know you are in safely comedic hands."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ranin |first=Ian |date=November 26, 2006 |title=Reader Beware... |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/18/fiction.ianrankin |access-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404025531/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/18/fiction.ianrankin |url-status=live }}</ref>

The main-belt asteroid 152319 is named after Pynchon.<ref name="Guido 2013">{{cite news|last=Guido|first=Ernesto|title=Asteroids named after Thomas Pynchon & Stabia|url=http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2013/11/asteroids-named-after-thomas-pynchon.html|access-date=June 11, 2014|archive-date=July 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714201801/http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2013/11/asteroids-named-after-thomas-pynchon.html|url-status=live}}</ref>