Unless an author makes a major stylistic turn later in their career, I can’t imagine any new work being favorably compared against the earlier work that established the style and sounded so fresh. On the other hand, it’s not always the first work that is considered the best. It can still take time to perfect the style. Gravity’s Rainbow perfected what was established in V and developed in The Crying of Lot 49. This begs the question of how common it is for an author to perfect their style much later in their career (although apparently rarely as late as 65 years old).
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