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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (Long Island, Nueva York; 8 de mayo de 1937) es un escritor estadounidense, considerado uno de los novelistas más célebres de la actualidad. Se destaca tanto por su narrativa compleja y laberíntica como por su aversión a los medios. Debido a esto último, solo se conoce media docena de fotos suyas de estudiante y recluta en la marina. Es considerado actualmente como una de las voces más importantes del posmodernismo maximalista. Su novela más destacada, El arco iris de gravedad, fue rechazada por el jurado del Premio Pulitzer por considerarla obscena y en cambio ganó el National Book Award. La prosa de Pynchon ha sido catalogado de diversas maneras: paranoica, histérica, densa, aunque no le han negado la trascendental importancia que tiene en la literatura de fines del siglo XX. Es citado periódicamente como candidato al Premio Nobel de Literatura. El crítico Harold Bloom citó a Pynchon como uno de los más grandes novelistas estadounidenses de su tiempo junto a Don DeLillo, Philip Roth y Cormac McCarthy. Primeros años Infancia Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Junior nació el 8 de mayo de 1937, en Glen Cove, Long Island, en el estado de Nueva York en el seno de una familia con tres niños. Uno de sus antepasados, William Pynchon, emigró a los Estados Unidos en 1630 en la Flota Winthrop. Formación Pynchon estudió en la Oyster Bay High School, donde fue nombrado «estudiante del año». En esa época escribió algunas narraciones para la revista de su instituto que contenían ya algunos motivos literarios y temáticos recurrentes en lo que sería más tarde su obra: nombres llamativos, humor explosivo, el uso de drogas ilícitas y la paranoia. En 1953 con 16 años, Pynchon entró en la Universidad de Cornell para estudiar física e ingeniería. Abandonó sin embargo la universidad al final de su segundo año para entrar en la Marina de los Estados Unidos en plena guerra del Sinaí. Regresó a la Universidad de Cornell en 1957 para seguir un curso de inglés y publicó su primera novela en mayo de 1959, titulada The Little Rain, la cual cuenta la experiencia real de un amigo en el ejército. En Cornell, Pynchon se hizo amigo de Richard Fariña y los dos desarrollaron lo que Pynchon señaló como un «microculto» a la novela Warlock de Oakley Hall. Pynchon asistió durante ese tiempo a unos cursos dados por Vladimir Nabokov, que enseñaba entonces literatura en Cornell. Nabokov declaró tiempo después no tener recuerdo alguno de Pynchon, aunque su mujer Vera dijo recordar su singular escritura, mezcla de letras en cursiva e impresas. Otros profesores de Cornell, entre ellos el escritor James McConkey, recordaron a Pynchon como un escritor dotado y talentoso. En 1958, Pynchon y un compañero de clase llamado Kirkpatrick Sale escribieron una comedia musical de ciencia ficción, titulada Minstrel Island, que expone un mundo futuro regido por las reglas de la firma IBM. Pynchon recibió su diploma en junio de 1959. Carrera V. Tras su partida de Cornell, Pychon comenzó a trabajar en su primera novela y al mismo tiempo estuvo empleado de febrero de 1960 a septiembre de 1962 como redactor técnico para la firma Boeing en Seattle. Compiló unos artículos para el Bomarc Service News, la newsletter que acompaña el desarrollo del misil tierra-aire BOMARC, empleado por la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos. Su experiencia en Boeing le inspiró la empresa «Yoyodin» en V. y La subasta del lote 49. Le ofreció además una gran parte de la materia prima de El arco iris de la gravedad. A su publicación en 1963, V. recibió el premio de la Fundación William Faulkner a la mejor primera novela del año. Tras su partida de Boeing, Pynchon pasó un tiempo entre Nueva York y México antes de instalarse en California, donde, según ciertas fuentes permaneció durante la mayoría de los años sesenta y el comienzo de los setenta. La redacción de El arco iris de la gravedad, su obra más célebre, parece haberse desarrollado durante este periodo en un apartamento de Manhattan Beach. Pynchon flirteó con el modo de vida y los hábitos de la cultura hippie. En 1966 escribió un reportaje, «A Journey into the Mind of Watts», publicado en New York Times Magazine. Desde los años sesenta, publicó regularmente prefacios y críticas para un gran número de novelas y ensayos. Por ejemplo, para Warlock de Oakley Hall, que apareció al lado de comentarios de otros siete escritores en «A Gift of Books», número de diciembre de 1965 de la revista Holiday. En una carta de abril de 1964 para su agente, Candida Donadio, escribió que hacía frente a una crisis de creatividad y que tenía cuatro novelas en taller: «Si yo las retranscribiera sobre el papel tal y como están en mi cabeza, constituirían el evento literario del milenio» (If they come out on paper anything like they are inside my head then it will be the literary event of the millennium). En diciembre de 1965, declina educadamente una invitación de Stanley Edgar para enseñar literatura en el Bennington College, respondiendo que ha resuelto escribir tres novelas a la vez. Posteriormente, Pynchon calificó esta decisión como «un momento de locura temporal» (a moment of temporary insanity) y precisó que estuvo tentado de abandonar una entre ellas. La subasta del lote 49 La segunda novela de Pynchon, La subasta del lote 49, apareció algunos meses más tarde en 1966. Recibió el premio de la Fundación Richard y Hilda Rosenthal poco después de su publicación. Es más concisa y lineal que otras novelas de Pynchon, y mezcla –como otras obras del autor– elementos cultural e históricamente heterogéneos. Su intriga sigue las trazas de un antiguo servicio postal secreto conocido con el nombre de «The Tristero» o «Trystero» como parodia del drama jacobino y de la conspiración que implicaba a los germanoamericanos de la segunda guerra mundial. Como V., la novela contiene innumerables referencias a la ciencia y a oscuros eventos históricos y explora las franjas periféricas de la sociedad americana. Utiliza también canciones paródicas y referencias a la cultura popular con alusiones eruditas, por ejemplo a la Lolita de Nabokov. En 1968 fue uno de los 447 suscriptores de la «Writers and Editors War Tax Protest», manifiesto firmado por autores y editores que rechazaban pagar el 10% de impuestos para financiar la Guerra de Vietnam. El arcoíris de gravedad El arco iris de gravedad, publicado en Estados Unidos en 1973, constituye la novela más celebrada de Pynchon. Mezcla, con un virtuosismo que el autor no había alcanzado anteriormente, un gran número de temas ya abordados en sus primeras novelas: preterición, paranoia, racismo, colonialismo, conspiración, sincronicidad o entropía. Considerado como uno de los arquetipos de la Postmodernidad en literatura, El arco iris de la gravedad ha suscitado un gran número de comentarios y exégesis, dos "guías del lector" y numerosos ensayos. La mayor parte de la novela se desarrolla en Londres y en Europa en los últimos meses de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en las sema.... Descubre los libros populares de Pynchon Notes. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Pynchon Notes
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Pynchon and Three Contemporary German Novelists.
Pynchon NotesIn the 1990s, several literary critics, authors and editors complained that German prose fiction had become too theoretical and experimental. (1) These proponents of what was vario...
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Max Sachsa's Bad Karma in Enzian's Bathtub: A Bus Ride Through Gravity's Rainbow's Textscape (Place) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesGiven the narrow employment prospects in presentday German academia, one is always on the lookout for professional alternatives. During the days of our trip "Into the Zone 2000," I...
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Subliminal Cues: Psychoanalysis and Entropy in Pynchon's Novels (Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesI In one of Robert Gernhardt's humorous sketches, a man calls on Sigmund Freud to consult him and tells him about a strange dream. In this dream, his id expressed libidinal urge...
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An Elated Eye: Scandinavian Perspectives (Blissful Bewilderment: Studies in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon) (Book Review)
Pynchon NotesBlissful Bewilderment: Studies in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon, by Anne Mangen and Rolf Gaasland, eds. Oslo: Novus, 2002. 228 pp. 29 EUR. In A History of Reading, Alberto Mangu...
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Bely and Pynchon: Anatomists of History (Andrei Bely, Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesSome imaginative grounds for invidious comment there was. The maintenance of secrecy in the matter, the confining of all knowledge of it for a time to the place where the homicide ...
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Talking to Themselves (Thomas Pynchon's Narratives: Subjectivity and Problems of Knowing; Mason & Dixon & Pynchon) (Book Review)
Pynchon NotesThomas Pynchon's Narratives: Subjectivity and Problems of Knowing, by Alan W. Brownlie. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 164 pp. $50.95. Mason & Dixon & Pynchon, by Charles C...
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The Linking Feature: Degenerative Systems in Pynchon and Spengler (Thomas Pynchon, Oswald Spengler) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesMan has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against nature ... the ...
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A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon? Bomarc Service News Rediscovered.
Pynchon NotesEarly in 1960, after having graduated from Cornell and while writing V., Thomas Pynchon moved to Seattle and began working for the Boeing Airplane Company. What Pynchon did while w...
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Narratives of the Visto (Book Review)
Pynchon NotesPynchon and Mason & Dixon, by Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin, eds. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000. 228 pp. $39.50. Of the thirteen pieces in Pynchon and Mason & Dixon (e...
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A V and a Naught Spell Infinity (Using V Words and V Shapes in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon Notes1 One of the most obvious and exhausted aspects of Pynchon's works is surely the significance of the Vwords in his first novel. Moreover, critics were quick to comment on the fa...
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Breaking Through Pynchon Studies in Japan (Thomas Pynchon: Museifu-Shugi-Teki-Kiseki No Uchu, Postmodern Metamorphosis: Capitalism and the Subject in Contemporary American Fiction) (Book Review)
Pynchon NotesThomas Pynchon: Museifushugitekikiseki no Uchu [Thomas Pynchon: The Universe of Anarchist Miracle], by Yoshihiko Kihara. Kyoto: Kyoto UP, 2001. 246 pp. [yen] 3400. Postmodern Me...
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Listing Lists (Gatsby's Party: The System and the List in Contemporary Narrative; A Companion to the Crying of Lot 49) (Book Review)
Pynchon NotesGatsby's Party: The System and the List in Contemporary Narrative, by Patti White. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1992. 187 pp. $28.50. A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49, by J...
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Pynchon Is Not a Narratologist.
Pynchon NotesNarratologies of Gravity's Rainbow, by Samuli Hagg. Joensuu: U of Joensuu Pub., 2005. 205 pp. 20 Eur. Narratologies of Gravity's Rainbow provides a sophisticated but ultimately ...
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Site-Specific: Pynchon/Germany--a Multiplicity of Critical Eigenvalues.
Pynchon NotesThe self does not undergo modifications, it is itself a modification. Gilles Deleuze (DR 79)
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Gravity's Rainbow As Metaphoric Narrative: Film, Fairy Tale and Fantasy in Pynchon's Germany.
Pynchon NotesIt may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. Jorge Luis Borges, "The Fearful Sphere of Pascal"
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Atonalism, Nietzsche and Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon's Use of German Music History and Culture.
Pynchon NotesHenryLouis de la Grange, a scholar of Gustav Mahler's life and works, tells us that an "early plan of the Fourth Symphony, put together some time before that symphony was composed ...
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History, Refusal and the Strategic-Essentialist Politics of Pynchon's Vineland (Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesAfter a while her thoughts started falling into place. The injustices she had seen in the streets and fields, so many, too many times gone unansweredshe began to see them more dire...
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Traces of Blood and the Matter of a Paraclete's Coming: The Menstrual Economy of Pynchon's V (Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesOh man, I want some young blood, Drink it, gargle it, use it for a moufwash. Hey, young blood, what's happening tonight.... Thomas Pynchon, V. (300)
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Mason and Dixon: Pynchon's Bickering Heroes (Thomas Pynchon) (Essay)
Pynchon NotesMany of Pynchon's characters are given to bickering. In Vineland, Van Meter engages with the other members of his "commune" in "energetic" and "relentless ... bickering raised to t...
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New Pathways Through Pynchon (Book Review)
Pynchon NotesAmerican Postmodernity: Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon, by Ian D. Copestake, ed. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. 223 pp. $44.95. In his introduction to American Postmode...
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"Hi! My Name Is Arnold Snarb!": Homosexuality in the Crying of Lot 49 (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesThe Crying of Lot 49 (1966) has evoked a wealth of critical attention, but this attention has overlooked its frequent references to male homosexuality. J. Kerry Grant, for example,...
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Francine Prose“In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose’s fiction and criticismuncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the ci...
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The Mittelwerke: Site--Para-Site--Non-Site.
Pynchon NotesWhat is it about the middle that makes it such an unreliable place? Is it that, when standing exactly midway between two points, one can regard the overall distance as both halftra...
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Surprise Birthday Party for Thomas Pynchon.
Pynchon NotesNo chief yeoman tried "to urinate in the gas tank of a '54 Packard Patrician" parked outside the bar, but on 8 May, 1975, patrons inside Riordan's waterfront tavern in San Francisc...
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"Catching the War": Jessica Swanlake's Brief Liberation (Character in Gravity's Rainbow) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon Notes"The greatness of war is the greatness of death and danger; it presents overriding circumstances which remove altogether for the time being the motives of selfish peoplethe immedia...
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Something to Compare It to then: Rereading Terror in Coincidences Between Pynchon's Germany and America's 9/11.
Pynchon Notes"Why is your equation only for angels, Roger? Why can't we do something, down here? Couldn't there be an equation for us too, something to help us find a safer place?" Thomas Py...
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Re-Stenciling Lesbian Fetishism in Pynchon's V (Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesV. is an important text for anyone interested in recent attempts to theorize female fetishism. "V. in Love," the last overtly "Stencilized" of the novel's historical chapters, tell...
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Encountering the Other at Home: Representations of Dora in Pynchon and Mirbach.
Pynchon NotesOne of the many obscure passages in part 4 of Gravity's Rainbow mentions an unnamed "spokesman for the Counterforce" who confesses "in an interview with the Wall Street Journal" (7...
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The Rebellion of the Coprophages (Eating of Feces) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesPynchon's famously encyclopedic narratives are so heteroglossic that we should be surprised if they did not include a range of eating and drinking motifs. Pynchon's creative and pu...
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The Transcription of Electronic Music in the Crying of Lot 49.
Pynchon NotesEven if Pynchon refers in The Crying of Lot 49 to electronic music only marginally, one may ask from a musicologist's perspective what motivates the contextualization of this pheno...
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The Three Equations in Gravity's Rainbow (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesPynchon's references to mathematics and science attracted early notice among the first critics confronting the unsettling complexities of Gravity's Rainbow. Lance Ozier explicated ...
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Bibliography (-2008).
Pynchon NotesWe invite readers to contribute bibliographic information about books, chapters, essays, articles, reviews, interviews, translations, newspaper and magazine stories, dissertations,...
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The Decline of the Baedeker Country: The Representation of Geographical and Cultural Identity in Pynchon's Novels (Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesInger H. Dalsgaard's mindful "investigation of Pynchon's Spenglerian vision" (97) shows how "[i]n both The Decline of the West and Gravity's Rainbow, prospects of deliverance are r...
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N Tropes for Entropy in Pynchon's Early Works (Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon Notes1 When Pynchon republished all but one of his short stories in Slow Learner, he severely criticized most of his early texts. Among the stories which find no grace in the eyes of...
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Abusing Surrealism: Pynchon's V. And Breton's Nadja (Thomas Pynchon, Andre Breton) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesIn his introduction to Slow Learner, Pynchon mentions two aesthetic movements which influenced his own writing: that of the Beats, and Surrealism. While he says the effect of the B...
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A Bibliography of Pynchon Scholarship in Japan (Thomas Pynchon) (Bibliography)
Pynchon NotesThe following bibliography covers mostly the previous decade or so of publications concerning Thomas Pynchon by scholars in Japan. The earliest publication listed is from 1983; on...
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The Vagueness of Difference: You, The Reader and the Dream of Gravity's Rainbow (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesIs there anything To be serious about beyond this otherness That gets included in the most ordinary Forms of daily activity, changing everything Slightly and profoundly, and tearin...
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Essaying Pynchon's Politics (Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins) (Book Review)
Pynchon NotesThomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins, by Niran Abbas, ed. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP / London: Associated UP, 2003. 256 pp. $43.50. This anthology prints twelve pap...
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Wells and Pynchon, Men of Science (H. G. Wells and Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon Notes1 H. G. Wells and Thomas Pynchon were both educated in science, (1) but subsequently followed careers in creative writing. However, science, and particularly the impact on socie...
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Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid
Robert CooverThese two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an ench...
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"His Kipling Period": Bakhtinian Reflections on Annotation, Heteroglossia and Terrorism in the Pynchon Trade (Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesUpperclassman: Do you like Kipling? Coed: I don't know, I've never kippled.
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Bibliography (-2004) (Bibliography)
Pynchon NotesWe invite readers to contribute bibliographic information about books, chapters, essays, articles, reviews, interviews, translations, newspaper and magazine stories, dissertations,...
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A Weird Death: The Schwarzkommando and the Symbolic Challenge in Gravity's Rainbow.
Pynchon NotesToward the end of Gravity's Rainbow, in a passage closely related to the "scattering" or transformation of Tyrone Slothrop, we find this strange and rigorous maxim: "'the object of...
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Ilse/Lies: Nietzsche and/in Pynchon.
Pynchon NotesNietzsche and Pynchon have, as has been said recently of Nietzsche and Emerson, an "elective affinity" (Stack). This affinity is especially close on questions of truth and knowledg...
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Intertextualism: The Case of Pynchon and Patrick White (Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesBut Stan Parker was silent, because he did not have anything to say. He sat ... inside the rain, and waited for his first sight of the great river. Till there it was at last.
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Unreadable Stares: Imperial Narratives and the Colonial Gaze in Gravity's Rainbow (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesThe colonial situationthat is, the relation, especially the power dynamics, between the colonizer and the colonizedplays an important part in much of Pynchon's writing. In the earl...
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Hard Science and the Paranormal in Gravity's Rainbow: Precognition Machines, Cockroaches, And Not That Helmut Schmidt.
Pynchon NotesAmong the things that strike firsttime readers as strange, unique and most certainly fictitious in Gravity's Rainbow (hereafter GR) are the ways Pynchon links hard science and the ...
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From Potsdam to Putzi's: Can Slothrop Get There in Time? and, In Time for What?(Trip in Germany in Gravity's Rainbow) (Critical Essay)
Pynchon NotesInexplicably, the afternoon has been going on for longer than it should. Daylight has been declining for too many hours. (GR 489) Time is always an issue in narrative literature...
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On the Phrase "Ass Backwards" (Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon) (Book Review)
Pynchon NotesLines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynehon, by Stefan Mattessich. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002. 292 pp. $64.95; pb $21.95. There are ...
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The Life We All Really Live: German References As Metaphors in Gravity's Rainbow.
Pynchon NotesWhy would Pynchon, a North American author whose works are all, arguably, first and foremost about North America, use Western Europe (and Germany in particular) near and just after...