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20262584 No.20262584 [Reply] [Original]

In the same way Wallace succeeded Pynchon as the greatest novelist of his time, who has or will succeed DFW?

>> No.20262604

>>20262584
Tao Lin

>> No.20262692
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20262692

bait

>> No.20262724

>>20262692

Back to reddot or kys. Whichever, dont really care

>> No.20262816

In what way did Wallace succeed Pynchon?

>> No.20262843

>>20262724
Cry harder lmao

>> No.20262849

>>20262584
Me

>> No.20263117

>>20262816
Wrote the most well-known big postmodernist epic of his generation, like Pynchon with GR

>> No.20263122

If anything, Vollmann has succeeded Pynchon
but ol' Pynch is still alive as far as we know and we can't name his successor until he dies

>> No.20263184

>>20263117
lol

>> No.20263194

>>20263117
IJ is not postmodern. Broom of the System sorta is, but it was far from well known and more an imitation of postmodern than actually postmodern.