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around here the plot relocates to Hungary and the story instead illustrates aspects of that country's history which few people in English-speaking countries know about at all, I am curious how this novel was received by Hungarian audiences and whether they found Pynchon to represent it accurately
— Oct 27, 2026 02:45AM
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Halfways through and it feels very similar to most of James Ellroy's novels in that it uses the historical crime fiction genre to tell the less well known chapters of a major American city (just Milwaukee instead of LA) and is also written in the street-level slang of the era it's set in. (just the early 1930's instead of the late 1940's/early 1950's)
Lew Basnight from "Against the Day" also makes an appearance.
— Oct 24, 2026 09:56AM
Lew Basnight from "Against the Day" also makes an appearance.