Pynchon, Thomas (Vol. 3) - Pynchon, Thomas 1937–
Pynchon, Thomas 1937–
Pynchon, a major American novelist, is now considered one of the most important living experimental novelists. His labyrinthine fictions display his familiarity with a mind-boggling range of scientific and technical detail and his dark vision of contemporary social, cultural, and political trends. The central metaphor of his novel V. has remained stubbornly resistant to exegesis, although some critics have called V. no less than a metaphor for the twentieth century. His latest work is Gravity's Rainbow, one of the most vast and stunning novels of our time. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 19-20.)
V. … is a quest-novel, a form that allows for almost endless episodic performances. Certainly Pynchon seems to have indulged in a great deal of freewheeling improvisation in the early part of his novel, especially in the scenes dealing with Benny Profane, an amiable layabout looking for work in New...
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