Karl Fotovat studies and teaches philosophy and psychoanalysis in New York. He represses literary aspirations, runs a nonprofit prevarication organization for the wealthy, helps young ladies cross the street, and wavers between sardonicism and misanthropy.
Thomas Pynchon is an enigmatic figure, to say nothing of his novels. Many a reader have gotten lost navigating his notoriously dense fiction. Yet, Pynchon is not impossible. In this meditation on...