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I just started reading pynchon (lot 49), and I'm wondering, could you describe it as kafkaesque?

>> No.15946850

i think about it as magical realism desu

>> No.15946856

No. Do you even know what the fuck "kafkaesque" even means? Have you even read Kafka?

>> No.15946909

>>15946856
yeah I read kafka but I'm not sure about the word, I thought it means that weird shit happens all of a sudden (like a criminal court being in a residential building), and the protagonist just accepts it without really pondering

>> No.15947267

>>15946909
Nah that's basically just surrealism. Kafkaesque is that sense of mundane and dull dread that pervades through, the bureaucratic nightmare, the dim smoky lighting and the tiny cramped rooms. Kafka is sort of on the depressed side of surreal, whereas Pynchon is more on the manic side, with bright colours and characters and constant shifts between exposition and narrative.

>> No.15947300

>>15946841
He looks low IQ. Maybe it's just the teeth.

>> No.15948265

>>15947300
Might be rumour but an ex-gf of his said that his IQ score was 190ish.

>> No.15949393

>>15946841

No, it is Pynchonesque you moron

>> No.15949766

>>15949393
>Pynchonesque
>Not Pynchonian

>> No.15949781

>>15947300
just an american thing

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>>15947300