"Nothing more intricately conceived than Thomas Pynchon’s first novel has appeared in American fiction since the work in the thirties by Faulkner, Nathaniel West and Djuna Barnes, the last two being among the writers who have given him the courage of his artifices and of the assumptions that go with them. V. is full of self-mystified people consistently avoiding direct relations with one another through disguise or evasion, people living the disrupted existences either of the Cook’s Tour, in one plot or in the other, of a kind of contemporary tourism called 'yo-yoing,' the pointless repetitive passage and return on any convenient ferry or subway. Neither of the two interwoven plots is presented in sequence. ..."
The New York Review of Books (June 1, 1963)
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