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Pynchon is a writer whose books tends not to conclude with the neatly tied-up endings as is often found in the preceding novels that were driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their times. His novels often parodies them. He tends to celebrate chance over craft, and further employs metafiction to undermine his authority as the writer. Another characteristic of his novels is the questioning of distinctions between high and low culture through the use of pastiche, the combination of subjects and genres not previously deemed fit for literature.

Or, you know, he is a post-modernist, as opposed to modernism.