Pynchon's work also has similarities with modernist writers who wrote long novels dealing with large metaphysical or political issues, such as James Joyce's Ulysses, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities and John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy. A strong influence from Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight on Pynchon's first novel has been noted. V. resembles Nabokov's novel in plot, character, narration and style, and the title alludes directly to Nabokov's narrator "V." in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Pynchon also outlines the influence on his own early fiction of literary works by Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Saul Bellow, Herbert Gold, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, John Buchan and Graham Greene, and non-fiction works by Helen Waddell, Norbert Wiener and Isaac Asimov.
Pynchon's work also has similarities with modernist writers who wrote long novels dealing with large metaphysical or political issues such as James Joyce's Ulysses E M Forster's A Passage to India Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities and John Dos Passos's USA trilogy A strong influence from Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight on Pynchon's first novel has been noted V resembles Nabokov's novel in plot character narration and style and the title alludes directly to Nabokov's narrator "V" in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Pynchon also outlines the influence on his own early fiction of literary works by Ernest Hemingway Henry Miller Saul Bellow Herbert Gold Philip Roth Norman Mailer John Buchan and Graham Greene and non-fiction works by Helen Waddell Norbert Wiener and Isaac Asimov