Abstract
Thomas Pynchon's fiction hardly seems formalist or humanist, but recent criticism dedicated to it has gone to great pains to show that. Pynchon's disregard for conventions of novelistic character, style, and closure would certainly appeal to deconstructive critics interested in the critique of these metaphysically-oriented values. It would also attract Marxist critics interested in an undoing of the humanist repressions that produce those forms and values. What is surprising-at first glance-is that Pynchon would appeal to advocates of the canonic tradition of great literature and defenders of liberal humanism. Charles Clerc, however, is not deterred by the appearance of Pynchon's text:
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